Decatur vs Garden Grove

A side-by-side comparison of Decatur and Garden Grove: population, income, housing, and more.

Decatur and Garden Grove are places in Iowa. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Garden Grove has the higher population (178 vs 163 in Decatur). Garden Grove has the higher median household income ($53,750 vs $33,750 in Decatur). Decatur has the higher median home value ($84,200 vs $48,600 in Garden Grove).

Population, income & housing

	Decatur	Garden Grove
Population	163	178
Median age	38.8 yrs	48.5 yrs
Median household income	$33,750	$53,750
Median home value	$84,200	$48,600
Median gross rent	—	$535
Housing units	93	104
Homeownership rate	95.5%	89.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher	3.4%	16.4%
Unemployment rate	1.3%	1.3%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Decatur	Garden Grove
Population	—	176 → 178 (+1.1%)
Median household income	—	$41,607 → $53,750 (+29.2%)
Median home value	—	$31,100 → $48,600 (+56.3%)
Median gross rent	—	$388 → $535 (+37.9%)

Decatur

Garden Grove

Population

176178

Median household income

$41,607$53,750

Median home value

$31,100$48,600

Median gross rent

$388$535

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Decatur	Garden Grove
Under 5	8.0%	2.8%
5 to 17	10.4%	15.2%
18 to 24	27.0%	10.1%
25 to 34	2.5%	6.7%
35 to 44	12.9%	9.6%
45 to 54	8.0%	29.8%
55 to 64	15.3%	9.0%
65 to 74	7.4%	14.6%
75 and over	8.6%	2.2%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Decatur	Garden Grove
White (non-Hispanic)	87.1%	94.4%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	8.6%	1.7%
Hispanic or Latino	4.3%	3.9%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Decatur	Garden Grove
No high school diploma	15.7%	8.6%
High school graduate	53.9%	39.8%
Some college or associate's	27.0%	35.2%
Bachelor's degree	3.4%	3.9%
Graduate or professional degree	0.0%	12.5%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Decatur	Garden Grove
Drove alone	94.7%	96.1%
Carpooled	4.0%	3.9%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	1.3%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.0%	0.0%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Decatur	Garden Grove
1-unit, detached	68.8%	71.2%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	3.8%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	3.8%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	4.8%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	31.2%	16.3%

Poverty & households

	Decatur	Garden Grove
Poverty rate	31.3%	24.2%
Average household size	2.47	2.05
Mean commute (minutes)	38	31
Median year structure built	1977	1955