{"id":187,"date":"2011-08-15T13:17:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T18:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2011-09-01T16:44:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T21:44:59","slug":"iowa-2010-population-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/iowa-2010-population-breakdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa 2010 population breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the beginning of what will turn into more charts and graphs, but these stand alone and are worth posting now.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2010 census, Iowa&#8217;s 947 incorporated places break down like this: Population 0-499, 490; 500-999, 174; 1000-4999, 203; 5000-9999, 42; 10,000-plus, 38. Those numbers by percentage:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CitybyPopRange.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-188\" title=\"CitybyPopRange\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CitybyPopRange.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CitybyPopRange.png 302w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CitybyPopRange-245x300.png 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So about half of Iowa&#8217;s cities have a population under 500, and 7 in 10 are under 1000. But when it comes to where people live, that statistic is flipped on its head:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CitybyPopTotalRural.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-190\" title=\"CitybyPopTotalRural\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CitybyPopTotalRural.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CitybyPopTotalRural.png 304w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CitybyPopTotalRural-236x300.png 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While more than half of Iowa&#8217;s incorporated places have a population under 500, they contain only 3% of the people in the state.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly half of Iowans live in cities above 10,000.<\/li>\n<li>Only 1 in 5 Iowans are truly rural\/live &#8220;out in the country.&#8221; (Defined as total state population minus combined population of all incorporated places.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the beginning of what will turn into more charts and graphs, but these stand alone and are worth posting now. In the 2010 census, Iowa&#8217;s 947 incorporated places break down like this: Population 0-499, 490; 500-999, 174; 1000-4999, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/iowa-2010-population-breakdown\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}