Garden City vs Owasa

A side-by-side comparison of Garden City and Owasa: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Garden City has the higher population (67 vs 17 in Owasa). Owasa has the higher median household income ($40,625 vs $36,667 in Garden City). Since 2019, Owasa's population has grown faster (-22.7% vs -63.4%).

Population, income & housing

	Garden City	Owasa
Population	67	17
Median age	72.9 yrs	68.5 yrs
Median household income	$36,667	$40,625
Median home value	$61,100	—
Housing units	46	13
Homeownership rate	100.0%	100.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	0.0%	17.6%
Unemployment rate	34.6%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Garden City	Owasa
Population	183 → 67 (-63.4%)	22 → 17 (-22.7%)
Median household income	$67,625 → $36,667 (-45.8%)	$41,250 → $40,625 (-1.5%)
Median home value	$54,600 → $61,100 (+11.9%)	$85,000 → $65,000 (-23.5%)

Garden City

Population

18367

Median household income

$67,625$36,667

Median home value

$54,600$61,100

Owasa

Population

2217

Median household income

$41,250$40,625

Median home value

$85,000$65,000

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Garden City	Owasa
Under 5	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 17	0.0%	0.0%
18 to 24	0.0%	0.0%
25 to 34	0.0%	11.8%
35 to 44	0.0%	0.0%
45 to 54	0.0%	17.6%
55 to 64	0.0%	17.6%
65 to 74	82.1%	17.6%
75 and over	17.9%	35.3%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Garden City	Owasa
White (non-Hispanic)	86.6%	100.0%
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	13.4%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Garden City	Owasa
No high school diploma	0.0%	0.0%
High school graduate	61.2%	47.1%
Some college or associate's	38.8%	35.3%
Bachelor's degree	0.0%	11.8%
Graduate or professional degree	0.0%	5.9%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Garden City	Owasa
Drove alone	100.0%	100.0%
Carpooled	0.0%	0.0%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	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)

	Garden City	Owasa
1-unit, detached	100.0%	92.3%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	7.7%

Poverty & households

	Garden City	Owasa
Poverty rate	0.0%	5.9%
Average household size	1.46	1.31
Mean commute (minutes)	9	14
Median year structure built	1938	1938