Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety84#2,571/15,637
Economy45#8,620/15,631
Housing80#3,024/14,977
Health60#6,246/15,609
Healthcare75#3,953/15,650
Environment91#1,386/15,453
Education60#6,331/15,649
Infrastructure41#9,219/15,650
Community84#2,528/15,651
Leisure & amenities51#7,625/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Corning, Iowa ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Adams County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Property crime rate · low112 /100k
100/100Iowa 1,172 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationAdams County value
Suicide rate · low0.0 /100k
100/100Iowa 16.9 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100k2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionAdams County value
Public libraries · high5.6 /10k
99/100Iowa 1.8 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesAdams County value
Firearm deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Iowa 11.4 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100k2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionAdams County value
Drug overdose deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Iowa 9.4 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100k2024Centers for Disease Control and PreventionAdams County value
Job growth · high5.4%
98/100Iowa -0.1%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataAdams County value

Weaknesses

Pharmacies · low0.0 /10k
1/100Iowa 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsAdams County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Iowa 4.0 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyAdams County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Iowa 1.2 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsAdams County value
Mental health providers · low83 /100k
12/100Iowa 226 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAdams County value
New homes permitted · low0.0 /1k
13/100Iowa 4.1 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Effective property tax rate · high1.71%
14/100Iowa 1.33%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
20.1% (2015-2019) → 43.8% (2020-2024)
+24 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
75.1% (2015-2019) → 87.2% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$47,330 (2015-2019) → $64,773 (2020-2024)
+37%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
18.3% (2015-2019) → 25.2% (2020-2024)
+6.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
21.1% (2015-2019) → 25.8% (2020-2024)
+4.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Unemployment rateWorsening
2.2% (2015-2019) → 6.0% (2020-2024)
+3.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Corning, Iowa improved on 2 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved2

Bachelor's++6.9 points18.3% → 25.2%
Broadband+12 points75.1% → 87.2%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Corning, Iowa between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.2 min2015-2019	17.0 min2020-2024	−3.2 min	Within the margin of error	80%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.3%2015-2019	25.2%2020-2024	+6.9 points	Improved	79%
Broadband subscriptions	75.1%2015-2019	87.2%2020-2024	+12 points	Improved	69%
Effective property tax rate	1.62%2015-2019	1.71%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	7%
High school diploma or higher	93.4%2015-2019	91.9%2020-2024	−1.5 points	Within the margin of error	19%
Home price to income ratio	1.5×2015-2019	1.5×2020-2024	−0.1×	Within the margin of error	81%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4622015-2019	0.4282020-2024	−0.034	Within the margin of error	76%
Median household income	$47,3302015-2019	$64,7732020-2024	+37%	Within the margin of error	69%
Poverty rate	11.5%2015-2019	12.4%2020-2024	+0.9 points	Within the margin of error	35%
Rent as share of income	21.1%2015-2019	25.8%2020-2024	+4.7 points	Within the margin of error	24%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Corning, Iowa five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Corning, Iowa in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Corning, Iowa itself moved +0.3 points in standing on average over the same 9 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,567 residents (±146)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Under 10 women (−4.7 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,567 residents (±146)

Corning, Iowa
Iowa share

White91%1,430
Black0.6%†10
Hispanic or Latino2.9%†45
Asian0.0%0
American Indian and Alaska Native0.5%†8
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander0.0%0
Other or two or more races4.7%†74

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: White (−5.6 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B03002View table on data.census.gov

Education

1,159 residents (±116)

Corning, Iowa
Iowa share

No high school diploma8.1%†94
High school or GED28%326
Some college23%271
Associate degree15%176
Bachelor's degree20%227
Graduate degree5.6%†65

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: High school or GED (−8.4 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B15003View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

694 households (±86)

Corning, Iowa
Iowa share

Under $25k22%†155
$25k–50k19%†135
$50k–75k16%†114
$75k–100k14%†95
$100k–150k22%†154
$150k–200k2.3%†16
$200k or more3.6%†25

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $100k–150k (+13.7 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

694 households (±86)

Corning, Iowa
Iowa share

Own72%497
Rent28%†197

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

160 households (±62)

Corning, Iowa
Iowa share

Under $75049%†79
$750–1,00021%†33
$1,000–1,50030%†48

Home values

497 homes (±86)

Corning, Iowa
Iowa share

Under $150k70%350
$150k–250k20%†100
$250k–400k8.5%†42

Age of homes

842 homes (±81)

Corning, Iowa
Iowa share

2010 or later3.6%†30
2000–20097.7%†65
1980–19998.8%†74

Size of homes

842 homes (±81)

Corning, Iowa
Iowa share

Studio1.3%†11
1 bedroom14%†120
2 bedrooms18%152

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

687 workers (±106)

Corning, Iowa
Iowa share

Drive alone73%500
Carpool15%†100
Public transit0.0%0
Walk2.3%†16
Bike0.4%†3
Work from home8.7%†60
Other1.2%†8

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

627 workers (±101)

Corning, Iowa
Iowa share

Under 15 min58%366
15–29 min19%†116
30–44 min16%†101

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Adams County, the county holding most of Corning's residents.

Adams County has 98 employer establishments, 275 for every 10,000 residents (1.11× the US rate of 248; 1.06× Iowa's), with 1,212 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,154. The Census Bureau also counts 323 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 98; 323 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 275; US 248 · Iowa 259
Paid employees: 1,212
Average annual pay: $45,154; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Adams County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	9	25.3	1.63×Too few to compare	18	$47,000	43
Truck transportation	9	25.3	5.00×Too few to compare	34	$49,500	20
Ambulatory health care services	7	19.7	0.94×Too few to compare	236	$24,314	3
Restaurants and other eating places	7	19.7	1.07×Too few to compare	87	$11,989	—
Other specialty trade contractors	5	14	5.60×Too few to compare	8	$33,375	15
Religious organizations	4	11.2	2.03×Too few to compare	9	$12,000	—
Building equipment contractors	3	8.4	1.40×Too few to compare	10	$47,600	8
Construction of buildings	3	8.4	1.11×Too few to compare	9	$45,889	9
Full-service restaurants	3	8.4	1.10×Too few to compare	42	$14,286	—
Insurance agencies and brokerages	3	8.4	1.92×Too few to compare	9	$47,667	5
Offices of other health practitioners	3	8.4	1.39×Too few to compare	7	$30,429	—
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	4

Rank places for an industry Open Adams County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 3,559 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Corning is mostly in Adams County.

See federal money in Adams County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Corning, Iowa is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Zachary NunnR-IA-3 · 100% of residentsWith party 95%Missed 4.6%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Adams County91100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Adams County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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