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Defiance city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Defiance city is a Census city of 251 people across 0.37 square miles of land, in Shelby County. Median household income is $53,542, 89.9 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Defiance
What Defiance is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.37 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land673 plus or minus 209
- County holding the largest share of its areaShelby 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.
Defiance
How many people live in Defiance
- Population251 plus or minus 78
- Median age36.2 plus or minus 11.9
- Population under 1846 plus or minus 22
- Share under 1818.3 percent plus or minus 6.6
- Population 65 and over47 plus or minus 18
- Share 65 and over18.7 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Households119 plus or minus 37
- Family households78 plus or minus 31
- Share of households that are families65.5 percent plus or minus 16.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Defiance
Income and work in Defiance
- Median household income$53,542 plus or minus $14,672
- Per capita income$42,810 plus or minus $16,116
- Civilian labor force151 plus or minus 52
- Employed150 plus or minus 52
- Unemployed1 plus or minus 2
- Unemployment rate0.7 percent plus or minus 1.3
- Adults 25 and over202 plus or minus 57
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.6 percent plus or minus 33.7
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher11.4 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.0 percent plus or minus 6.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Defiance
Housing in Defiance
- Housing units123 plus or minus 37
- Occupied units119 plus or minus 37
- Vacant units4 plus or minus 5
- Vacancy rate3.3 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Owner occupied107 plus or minus 34
- Renter occupied12 plus or minus 11
- Ownership rate89.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$101,600 plus or minus $31,190
- Median gross rent, monthly$770 plus or minus $166
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.3 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Single family units113 plus or minus 37
- Share single family91.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more2 plus or minus 10
- Share in buildings of two or more1.6 percent plus or minus 8.4
- Mobile homes8 plus or minus 9
- Median year structure built1952
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Defiance
How Defiance gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute144 plus or minus 51
- Commuting under 15 minutes51 plus or minus 28
- Share commuting under 15 minutes35.4 percent plus or minus 14.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more23 plus or minus 17
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more16.0 percent plus or minus 10.6
- Drove alone72.7 percent
- Carpooled8.7 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked10.7 percent plus or minus 14.9
- Worked from home4.0 percent plus or minus 3.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shelby County, not Defiance
Shelby County context, not Defiance figures
These are Shelby County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Defiance measurements.
- Establishments in Shelby County384
- Employment at those establishments, Shelby County5,049
- Covered employment, Shelby County5,460
- Average annual pay, Shelby County$51,072
- Average weekly wage, Shelby County$982
- Housing units permitted, Shelby County6
- Of those, single family, Shelby County6
- County product, 2024, Shelby County$1,051,016,000
- County product change over the prior year, Shelby County0.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Shelby County$50,616
Every figure in this section is published for Shelby County as a whole and is not a measurement of Defiance. 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
Defiance questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Defiance, Iowa?
251, in 119 households. Defiance city covers 0.37 square miles of land, which is 673 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Defiance in?
Shelby 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 Defiance?
$53,542. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $101,600. Median gross rent is $770 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 Defiance figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Shelby 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 Defiance.
Is zoning published for Defiance?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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