The State Data Center of Iowa’s website was redesigned just in time for release of the 2010 census data. The new site is completely dynamic without a single directly downloadable PDF or Excel file in sight. It does not seem to provide a way to get a simple table: A listing of Iowa’s cities in descending order by population, WITH a ranking, and NOT including Census Designated Places.<\/p>\n
So I made one.<\/p>\n
The 2010 census page<\/a> is one of the last static pages on the old site. This is where the original files came from. I could explain the process, but the end result is what matters:<\/p>\n Iowa city population and rankings, in ranked order, 2010<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n Iowa county population and rankings, in ranked order, 2010<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n For data going back past 2000, the State Data Center is maintaining those files, at least for now:<\/p>\n Rankings from 2000 going back to 1850<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n Root page for multiple statistical compilations for cities<\/a><\/p>\n (This new site hasn’t even begun to sit upright, let alone crawl or walk, but if I’m going to put up link bait, this is a good place to start.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The State Data Center of Iowa’s website was redesigned just in time for release of the 2010 census data. The new site is completely dynamic without a single directly downloadable PDF or Excel file in sight. It does not seem … Continue reading