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Housing

Black households that own their home in Iowa

Iowa ranks 38th of 39 states measured the same way. Below, every county in Iowa, starting with where Black residents are doing best.

Black households that own their home
Iowa27.3%
plus or minus 1.7 points
United States44%
plus or minus 0.3 points
All households in Iowa: 71.7% (plus or minus 0.3 points). Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey, survey years 2020 to 2024.
Doing best Black Hawk County 34%, plus or minus 4.9 points. Ranked 1st of 6 counties. What is Black Hawk County doing that works? Furthest to go: Johnson County, 18.3%. See Black Hawk County ›

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Where you live

Enter your ZIP code or street address to find your county below and the people who decide this for you, by name. SourceLine does not keep the address.

Ranked from doing best

Every county in Iowa

6 ranked of 99
Margin of error
1 Black Hawk County 34% plus or minus 4.9 points 66.2%
2 Scott County 31.1% plus or minus 4.3 points 70%
3 Polk County 28.4% plus or minus 3 points 67.4%
4 Linn County 26.4% plus or minus 4.7 points 73.5%
5 Dubuque County 20.2% plus or minus 9.5 points 73.3%
6 Johnson County 18.3% plus or minus 4.4 points 59.4%
Not ranked Adair County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 73.9%
Not ranked Adams County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 77.1%
Not ranked Allamakee County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 79.6%
Not ranked Appanoose County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 68.8%
Not ranked Audubon County Not published: too few people in the survey 76.2%
Not ranked Benton County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 85%
Not ranked Boone County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 80%
Not ranked Bremer County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 79.7%
Not ranked Buchanan County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 82.1%
Not ranked Buena Vista County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 73.2%
Not ranked Butler County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 84.1%
Not ranked Calhoun County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 80.5%
Not ranked Carroll County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 77.1%
Not ranked Cass County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 71.6%
Not ranked Cedar County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 81.5%
Not ranked Cerro Gordo County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 70.4%
Not ranked Cherokee County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 75.5%
Not ranked Chickasaw County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 80.9%
Not ranked Clarke County Not published: too few people in the survey 72.3%
Not ranked Clay County Not published: too few people in the survey 73.3%
Not ranked Clayton County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 78%
Not ranked Clinton County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 74.5%
Not ranked Crawford County Not published: too few people in the survey 76%
Not ranked Dallas County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 69%
Not ranked Davis County Not published: too few people in the survey 83.3%
Not ranked Decatur County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 69.7%
Not ranked Delaware County Not published: too few people in the survey 79.6%
Not ranked Des Moines County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 74.6%
Not ranked Dickinson County Not published: too few people in the survey 77.5%
Not ranked Emmet County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 79.4%
Not ranked Fayette County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 76.5%
Not ranked Floyd County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 76.6%
Not ranked Franklin County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 72.4%
Not ranked Fremont County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 78.3%
Not ranked Greene County Not published: too few people in the survey 76.4%
Not ranked Grundy County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 84.5%
Not ranked Guthrie County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 84%
Not ranked Hamilton County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 73.4%
Not ranked Hancock County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 82.5%
Not ranked Hardin County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 73.6%
Not ranked Harrison County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 77.1%
Not ranked Henry County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 74.1%
Not ranked Howard County Not published: too few people in the survey 77.4%
Not ranked Humboldt County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 77.2%
Not ranked Ida County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 72.9%
Not ranked Iowa County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 76.6%
Not ranked Jackson County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 80.7%
Not ranked Jasper County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 72.3%
Not ranked Jefferson County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 67.7%
Not ranked Jones County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 80.6%
Not ranked Keokuk County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 81.3%
Not ranked Kossuth County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 78.6%
Not ranked Lee County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 76.3%
Not ranked Louisa County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 80.3%
Not ranked Lucas County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 78.8%
Not ranked Lyon County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 80.9%
Not ranked Madison County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 80.1%
Not ranked Mahaska County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 68%
Not ranked Marion County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 77.7%
Not ranked Marshall County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 75%
Not ranked Mills County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 83.5%
Not ranked Mitchell County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 80%
Not ranked Monona County Not published: too few people in the survey 75.7%
Not ranked Monroe County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 81.3%
Not ranked Montgomery County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 69.1%
Not ranked Muscatine County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 73.9%
Not ranked O'Brien County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 76.1%
Not ranked Osceola County Not published: too few people in the survey 77.9%
Not ranked Page County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 70.5%
Not ranked Palo Alto County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 77.1%
Not ranked Plymouth County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 73.6%
Not ranked Pocahontas County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 77.3%
Not ranked Pottawattamie County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 69.9%
Not ranked Poweshiek County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 71.2%
Not ranked Ringgold County Not published: too few people in the survey 78.5%
Not ranked Sac County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 78%
Not ranked Shelby County Not published: too few people in the survey 77.8%
Not ranked Sioux County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 76.1%
Not ranked Story County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 55.5%
Not ranked Tama County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 76%
Not ranked Taylor County Not published: too few people in the survey 77.9%
Not ranked Union County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 72.1%
Not ranked Van Buren County Not published: too few people in the survey 81.6%
Not ranked Wapello County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 68.4%
Not ranked Warren County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 82.3%
Not ranked Washington County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 74%
Not ranked Wayne County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 80.9%
Not ranked Webster County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 70.3%
Not ranked Winnebago County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 70.6%
Not ranked Winneshiek County Not published: too few people in the survey 74.2%
Not ranked Woodbury County 26.7% Wide margin of error plus or minus 10.7 points 68.2%
Not ranked Worth County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 83.2%
Not ranked Wright County Too small to report: fewer than 1,000 Black households 77%

Ranked: the 6 counties measured in survey years 2020 to 2024 with at least 1,000 Black households and with a margin of error of 10 points or less. Places below that line are still listed, with the reason.

Who decides

From you up to Congress. Look up your address above and each step fills in with the people who hold that seat for you.

  1. You and your neighbors Know your rights as a renter or owner, check your property tax assessment, and show up when zoning is decided.

    Ask: Is my assessment right, and when is the deadline to appeal it?

  2. Your mayor, council and county commission Decide zoning, property taxes, code enforcement and how local housing money is spent.

    Ask: What is being built here, who can afford it, and who decided?

  3. Your state legislators Write landlord and tenant law and decide where the housing tax credit goes.

    Ask: Where did our state place its housing tax credits last year?

  4. Your members of Congress Fund rent help, public housing and the housing tax credit.

    Ask: How long is the wait for rent help in our county?

What you can do

  1. This weekLook up your property assessment or reread your lease, and write down any deadline.
  2. The next date that mattersThe next zoning hearing or property tax appeal deadline in your county.
  3. Where your voice is countedRaise what matters where you live on SourceLine issues. Only confirmed residents are counted, and SourceLine shares the totals, never names, with the body that decides.
Method and sources

Black households that own their home. Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey, survey years 2020 to 2024.

The margin of error is how far the true figure could be from the one shown. Surveys ask some people, not everyone, so smaller places have wider margins. A place with too few people to measure well is listed but not ranked.

Population, voting age population, citizens of voting age, registered voters and people who voted are different counts. Each page says which one it uses.

Who decides: the people named come from SourceLine’s record of officeholders for the address you enter. Where SourceLine hasn’t updated a level for your area yet, that step says so.

About these figures

Every figure on this page shows the year it describes. Public agencies release their numbers on their own schedules, often a year or more after the work of counting is done. The Census Bureau, for example, publishes its five year community survey each December, and the national reading test is given every two years. That is why some figures are not from this year. SourceLine updates each one as soon as the agency publishes it.

For some counties and small towns, SourceLine has not found meeting records online. Where it has not, we add them as they become available. A page that says SourceLine hasn’t updated a record yet means exactly that.