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Benton County, IA

People
Population25,724B01003
Population, 2020 census25,575P1
Median age43.1B01002
Under 1822.9%B01001
65 and over19.8%B01001
Households10,202B11001
Foreign born0.8%B05002
Money
Median household income$86,962B19013
Median family income$107,203B19113
Per capita income$41,865B19301
Poverty rate7.4%B17001
Unemployment rate2.0%B23025
Civilian labor force13,421B23025
Mean commute (minutes)24.9B08013
Education
Bachelor's degree or higher25.6%B15003
Housing
Housing units11,114B25001
Owner-occupied85.0%B25003
Renters15.0%B25003
Median home value$208,200B25077
Median gross rent$826B25064
Race and ethnicity
White, not Hispanic94.4%B03002
Black0.4%B03002
Hispanic or Latino2.0%B03002
Asian0.2%B03002
American Indian and Alaska Native0.1%B03002

Figures from the 2020-2024 American Community Survey five-year estimates (table codes link to the same table for this area at data.census.gov) and the 2020 census (P1), via IPUMS NHGIS. Estimates for small areas carry wide margins of error; a tract's figures describe its residents, not any one organization.

Against the state: median household income here is 116% of Iowa's ($75,059); poverty 7.4% against 11.1%; 0.8% of the state's people live here.

Census tracts

Census Tract 9601: 3,020Census Tract 9602: 3,108Census Tract 9603: 5,178Census Tract 9604: 3,175Census Tract 9605: 5,901Census Tract 9606: 2,747Census Tract 9607: 2,595VintonBelle PlaineAtkinsUrbanaNewhallShellsburgKeystoneBlairstownVan HorneNorwayGarrisonWatkinsZIP 52349: 101 nonprofits, $70,295,486ZIP 52208: 52 nonprofits, $1,095,428ZIP 52224: 24 nonprofits, $768,718ZIP 52206: 20 nonprofits, $25,207ZIP 52332: 19 nonprofits, $284,277ZIP 52346: 19 nonprofits, $429,228ZIP 52209: 16 nonprofits, $130,532ZIP 52345: 15 nonprofits, $28,517,453ZIP 52249: 13 nonprofits, $2,593,087ZIP 52315: 12 nonprofitsZIP 52318: 12 nonprofits, $11,518ZIP 52351: 10 nonprofitsZIP 52229: 6 nonprofits, $13,573ZIP 52313: 5 nonprofits, $41,566ZIP 52257: 4 nonprofitsZIP 52354: 2 nonprofitsPopulation (ACS 2020-2024)up to 2,7472,747 to 3,0203,020 to 3,1753,175 to 5,178over 5,178nonprofits (circle size: how many)

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Places in the county

FURP records in Benton County, IA

RecordsHow manyTotalBiggest
Nonprofits330$104,206,073 revenue (latest return)VIRGINIA GAY HOSPITAL INC ($44,846,888)
Nonprofit contractors15$22,885,372 paid by nonprofitsMIDWEST UNDERGROUND CONTRACTORS ($4,465,619)
Form D issuers2$3,727,499 amount sold99 Counties, Inc. ($3,724,999)
Form 5500 plan sponsors6677 plansFRONTIER CO-OP (3)
Open Payments recipients33$37,303 industry paymentsSAMANTHA J ISAAC ($10,822)
Food recall firms127 recallsFrontier Natural Products CO-OP (27)
Patent and trademark owners33142 patents and marksFrontier Distribution LLC (57)
Federal award recipients2,088$123,607,880 federal awardsCITY OF VINTON ($13,733,692)
State business registrations72RIECK FARMS INC.

Cross-reference: 330 nonprofits for 25,724 residents is 128.3 per 10,000 people; their latest-year revenue of $104,206,073 is $4,051 per resident, 11.7% of all household income here (households at the median income).

Highest-paid people on nonprofit returns here

#NameTitleOrganizationPayYearTimes the median household income
1Dr Brian Meeker DODirector thru 7/2/2024VIRGINIA GAY TRUST$696,29620248.0x
2Dr Kyle Song DODirectorVIRGINIA GAY TRUST$545,22620246.3x
3Dr Margaret Mangold MDFamily MedicineVIRGINIA GAY HOSPITAL INC$365,51720194.2x
4Dr Michelle Elgin DODirectorVIRGINIA GAY HOSPITAL INC$338,37320243.9x
5KYLE KOEPPENSecretaryVINTON-SHELLSBURG COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION$320,00020223.7x
6Dr Erica Silbernagel DOFamily MedicineVIRGINIA GAY HOSPITAL INC$317,53220233.7x
7Tammy MadsenPA-C ER/HospitalistVIRGINIA GAY HOSPITAL INC$310,68520243.6x
8Matthew Wilden PA-CER/HospitalistVIRGINIA GAY HOSPITAL INC$309,29220243.6x
9Dr Emily Guerber MDFamily MedicineVIRGINIA GAY HOSPITAL INC$307,32620203.5x
10Michele Burnes PA-CFamily MedicineVIRGINIA GAY HOSPITAL INC$266,58120233.1x

Each person's latest year on a 990 at a nonprofit placed here (reported pay including related organizations and other compensation); people paid under $50,000 are left out. The median household income here is $86,962.

Nonprofits: biggest by revenue (latest return)

Nonprofit contractors: biggest by paid by nonprofits

Form D issuers: biggest by amount sold

Form 5500 plan sponsors: biggest by plans

Open Payments recipients: biggest by industry payments

Food recall firms: biggest by recalls

Patent and trademark owners: biggest by patents and marks

Federal award recipients: biggest by federal awards

All 7 tracts

Every tract with its figures is in the CSV and GeoJSON downloads.

TractPopulationMedian household incomePoverty rateMedian age
Census Tract 96055,901$103,5455.4%39.9
Census Tract 96035,178$66,11412.7%44.9
Census Tract 96043,175$94,7575.0%43.8
Census Tract 96023,108$99,00911.9%40.8
Census Tract 96013,020$113,3984.9%40.5
Census Tract 96062,747$83,2036.7%43.9
Census Tract 96072,595$74,8113.2%49.1

Census figures are from IPUMS NHGIS: the American Community Survey 2020-2024 five-year estimates (ACS table codes shown with each figure) and the 2020 decennial census (Demographic and Housing Characteristics), by state, county, place and census tract. FURP records are placed by ZIP code (the Census Bureau's 2020 ZCTA-to-county and ZCTA-to-tract relationship files: the county or tract holding most of the ZIP's land) and by city name (Census place names, normalized), so a record's tract is its ZIP's main tract, not its street's. Cite: Jonathan Schroeder, David Van Riper, Steven Manson, Grace Cooper, Zachary Krause, Tracy Kugler, Tsu Zhu, and Steven Ruggles. IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 21.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS. 2026. http://doi.org/10.18128/D050.V21.0