Garden City vs Steamboat Rock

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

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

Steamboat Rock has the higher population (235 vs 67 in Garden City). Steamboat Rock has the higher median household income ($44,583 vs $36,667 in Garden City). Steamboat Rock has the higher median home value ($78,300 vs $61,100 in Garden City).

Population, income & housing

	Garden City	Steamboat Rock
Population	67	235
Median age	72.9 yrs	48.6 yrs
Median household income	$36,667	$44,583
Median home value	$61,100	$78,300
Median gross rent	—	$755
Housing units	46	152
Homeownership rate	100.0%	70.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher	0.0%	17.5%
Unemployment rate	34.6%	3.3%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Garden City	Steamboat Rock
Population	183 → 67 (-63.4%)	283 → 235 (-17.0%)
Median household income	$67,625 → $36,667 (-45.8%)	$43,333 → $44,583 (+2.9%)
Median home value	$54,600 → $61,100 (+11.9%)	$66,500 → $78,300 (+17.7%)
Median gross rent	—	$584 → $755 (+29.3%)

Garden City

Population

18367

Median household income

$67,625$36,667

Median home value

$54,600$61,100

Steamboat Rock

Population

283235

Median household income

$43,333$44,583

Median home value

$66,500$78,300

Median gross rent

$584$755

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Garden City	Steamboat Rock
Under 5	0.0%	1.7%
5 to 17	0.0%	14.0%
18 to 24	0.0%	8.9%
25 to 34	0.0%	10.2%
35 to 44	0.0%	6.8%
45 to 54	0.0%	15.3%
55 to 64	0.0%	18.3%
65 to 74	82.1%	13.2%
75 and over	17.9%	11.5%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Garden City	Steamboat Rock
White (non-Hispanic)	86.6%	95.7%
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%	4.3%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Garden City	Steamboat Rock
No high school diploma	0.0%	1.1%
High school graduate	61.2%	38.4%
Some college or associate's	38.8%	42.9%
Bachelor's degree	0.0%	13.0%
Graduate or professional degree	0.0%	4.5%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Garden City	Steamboat Rock
Drove alone	100.0%	60.7%
Carpooled	0.0%	5.1%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	9.4%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.0%	10.3%
Other means	0.0%	14.5%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Garden City	Steamboat Rock
1-unit, detached	100.0%	84.9%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	3.9%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	9.2%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	2.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Garden City	Steamboat Rock
Poverty rate	0.0%	7.7%
Average household size	1.46	1.90
Mean commute (minutes)	9	24
Median year structure built	1938	1938