Belle Plaine vs Urbana

A side-by-side comparison of Belle Plaine and Urbana: population, income, housing, and more.

Belle Plaine and Urbana are places in Iowa. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Belle Plaine has the higher population (2,412 vs 1,628 in Urbana). Urbana has the higher median household income ($112,672 vs $70,517 in Belle Plaine). Urbana has the higher median home value ($224,100 vs $111,600 in Belle Plaine).

Population, income & housing

	Belle Plaine	Urbana
Population	2,412	1,628
Median age	45.1 yrs	31.3 yrs
Median household income	$70,517	$112,672
Median home value	$111,600	$224,100
Median gross rent	$796	$776
Housing units	1,193	572
Homeownership rate	77.2%	93.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.4%	28.8%
Unemployment rate	1.7%	1.8%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Belle Plaine	Urbana
Population	2,477 → 2,412 (-2.6%)	1,517 → 1,628 (+7.3%)
Median household income	$49,471 → $70,517 (+42.5%)	$88,333 → $112,672 (+27.6%)
Median home value	$82,800 → $111,600 (+34.8%)	$151,600 → $224,100 (+47.8%)
Median gross rent	$535 → $796 (+48.8%)	$637 → $776 (+21.8%)

Belle Plaine

Population

2,4772,412

Median household income

$49,471$70,517

Median home value

$82,800$111,600

Median gross rent

$535$796

Urbana

Population

1,5171,628

Median household income

$88,333$112,672

Median home value

$151,600$224,100

Median gross rent

$637$776

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Belle Plaine	Urbana
Under 5	6.4%	10.4%
5 to 17	10.9%	21.3%
18 to 24	6.7%	10.0%
25 to 34	14.4%	14.0%
35 to 44	11.4%	15.4%
45 to 54	11.3%	13.1%
55 to 64	15.3%	6.9%
65 to 74	14.6%	6.1%
75 and over	8.9%	3.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Belle Plaine	Urbana
White (non-Hispanic)	93.5%	91.3%
Black or African American	0.8%	0.6%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.3%
Asian	0.0%	0.5%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	1.0%	0.4%
Two or more races	1.5%	3.8%
Hispanic or Latino	3.2%	3.1%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Belle Plaine	Urbana
No high school diploma	5.8%	3.5%
High school graduate	38.8%	29.9%
Some college or associate's	37.0%	37.9%
Bachelor's degree	13.4%	20.0%
Graduate or professional degree	5.0%	8.8%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Belle Plaine	Urbana
Drove alone	86.5%	84.5%
Carpooled	5.6%	2.9%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	1.2%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	6.0%	12.1%
Other means	0.7%	0.6%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Belle Plaine	Urbana
1-unit, detached	84.7%	91.1%
1-unit, attached	0.8%	2.4%
2 to 4 units	4.4%	0.3%
5 to 19 units	7.0%	4.4%
20 or more units	2.3%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.7%	1.7%

Poverty & households

	Belle Plaine	Urbana
Poverty rate	6.1%	8.9%
Average household size	2.33	3.05
Mean commute (minutes)	25	27
Median year structure built	1952	1994