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Walnut city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Walnut city is a Census city of 1,342 people across 2.20 square miles of land, in Pottawattamie County. Median household income is $62,500, 72.3 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Walnut
What Walnut is
- Census place typecity
- Land area2.2 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land611
- County holding the largest share of its areaPottawattamie County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Walnut
How many people live in Walnut
- Population1,342
- Median age67.3
- Population under 18175 plus or minus 48
- Share under 1813.0 percent plus or minus 3.3
- Population 65 and over728 plus or minus 154
- Share 65 and over54.2 percent
- Households332 plus or minus 70
- Family households189 plus or minus 54
- Share of households that are families56.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Walnut
Income and work in Walnut
- Median household income$62,500 plus or minus $19,865
- Per capita income$29,692
- Civilian labor force358 plus or minus 94
- Employed343 plus or minus 95
- Unemployed15 plus or minus 14
- Unemployment rate4.2 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Adults 25 and over1,155
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher88.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher14.1 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.6 percent plus or minus 4.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Walnut
Housing in Walnut
- Housing units386
- Occupied units332 plus or minus 70
- Vacant units54 plus or minus 26
- Vacancy rate14.0 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Owner occupied240 plus or minus 63
- Renter occupied92 plus or minus 37
- Ownership rate72.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$115,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$874
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.8 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Single family units320 plus or minus 65
- Share single family82.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more59 plus or minus 28
- Share in buildings of two or more15.3 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Mobile homes7 plus or minus 7
- Median year structure built1943
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Walnut
How Walnut gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute297 plus or minus 85
- Commuting under 15 minutes84 plus or minus 34
- Share commuting under 15 minutes28.3 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more78 plus or minus 36
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more26.3 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Drove alone83.4 percent plus or minus 32.6
- Carpooled2.6 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home13.4 percent plus or minus 8.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Pottawattamie County, not Walnut
Pottawattamie County context, not Walnut figures
These are Pottawattamie County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Walnut measurements.
- Establishments in Pottawattamie County1,920
- Employment at those establishments, Pottawattamie County32,384
- Covered employment, Pottawattamie County41,403
- Average annual pay, Pottawattamie County$56,397
- Average weekly wage, Pottawattamie County$1,085
- Housing units permitted, Pottawattamie County681
- Of those, single family, Pottawattamie County105
- County product, 2024, Pottawattamie County$6,263,240,000
- County product change over the prior year, Pottawattamie County6.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Pottawattamie County$49,744
Every figure in this section is published for Pottawattamie County as a whole and is not a measurement of Walnut. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Walnut questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Walnut, Iowa?
1,342, in 332 households. Walnut city covers 2.20 square miles of land, which is 611 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Walnut in?
Pottawattamie County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Walnut?
$62,500. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $115,900. Median gross rent is $874 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Walnut figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Pottawattamie County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Walnut.
Is zoning published for Walnut?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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