Malvern vs Silver City

A side-by-side comparison of Malvern and Silver City: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Malvern has the higher population (1,415 vs 435 in Silver City). Malvern has the higher median household income ($82,027 vs $68,214 in Silver City). Malvern has the higher median home value ($173,900 vs $139,000 in Silver City).

Population, income & housing

	Malvern	Silver City
Population	1,415	435
Median age	42.6 yrs	31.7 yrs
Median household income	$82,027	$68,214
Median home value	$173,900	$139,000
Median gross rent	$843	$889
Housing units	562	151
Homeownership rate	85.3%	85.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	28.8%	6.4%
Unemployment rate	5.9%	5.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Malvern	Silver City
Population	1,015 → 1,415 (+39.4%)	241 → 435 (+80.5%)
Median household income	$53,250 → $82,027 (+54.0%)	$62,813 → $68,214 (+8.6%)
Median home value	$110,500 → $173,900 (+57.4%)	$90,000 → $139,000 (+54.4%)
Median gross rent	$784 → $843 (+7.5%)	$736 → $889 (+20.8%)

Malvern

Population

1,0151,415

Median household income

$53,250$82,027

Median home value

$110,500$173,900

Median gross rent

$784$843

Silver City

Population

241435

Median household income

$62,813$68,214

Median home value

$90,000$139,000

Median gross rent

$736$889

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Malvern	Silver City
Under 5	3.1%	2.3%
5 to 17	18.1%	22.1%
18 to 24	10.1%	14.5%
25 to 34	8.8%	12.4%
35 to 44	15.7%	11.5%
45 to 54	9.3%	7.1%
55 to 64	14.8%	12.0%
65 to 74	12.1%	11.5%
75 and over	8.1%	6.7%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Malvern	Silver City
White (non-Hispanic)	95.2%	91.5%
Black or African American	0.1%	8.3%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.7%	0.0%
Asian	0.4%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	1.8%	0.2%
Hispanic or Latino	1.8%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Malvern	Silver City
No high school diploma	7.3%	4.1%
High school graduate	28.2%	43.2%
Some college or associate's	35.7%	46.2%
Bachelor's degree	24.1%	4.5%
Graduate or professional degree	4.7%	1.9%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Malvern	Silver City
Drove alone	78.8%	78.3%
Carpooled	11.4%	6.1%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	7.8%	3.9%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	2.0%	11.7%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Malvern	Silver City
1-unit, detached	86.5%	97.4%
1-unit, attached	0.9%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	3.4%	1.3%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	3.7%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	5.5%	1.3%

Poverty & households

	Malvern	Silver City
Poverty rate	5.3%	9.4%
Average household size	2.81	3.35
Mean commute (minutes)	30	24
Median year structure built	1946	1938