Iowa’s baby boomers are redefining retirement, with most choosing to stay put rather than relocate. While some downsize for ...

With 21,829 people added from 2020-2024, the metro has increased its population 7.6% — the fastest growing in the Midwest.

Counties with Iowa's three public universities would have to elect county supervisors by district, not at large, under a bill ...

BloombergNEF, a research organization, is projecting half the world’s power may come from renewable energy by 2050.

The census estimates the Des Moines metro now has 753,913 people, and is the fastest-growing metro in Iowa, up 6.3% from 709,517 in 2020. Adding 44,396 people since 2020, it slots in at 81st in ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa's labor force participation rate climbed to 67% in January, up from the revised 66.4% in December, ...

The number of Iowans working in the state increased to 1,664,100 in January, the highest it’s been since June 2023, new data ...

Legislators canceled the project in 1970 due to the state’s poor budget. By comparison, Missouri has 13 public universities but the state also has about double Iowa’s population.

Over the last two decades, Iowa has lost nearly 1.8 million acres of farmland to development and other uses, for a 5.5% decline, according to a 2024 U.S. Census of Agriculture. Nearly 586,000 farm ...

followed by Missouri and Iowa, both down 15 percent. The only two states where the share of the population identifying as Christian rose were Alaska, up 6 percent, and Delaware, up 1 percent.

While family and job opportunities were among the main reasons people moved to Iowa, the ages of those migrating ... the net migration numbers using U.S. Census Bureau data from 2014 to 2023.

Iowa on Friday became the first US state to ... despite trans people being a small minority of the population. US media reported that hundreds of protesters descended on the state capitol ahead ...