City · Franklin County, Iowa

Hampton, Iowa

Hampton is a city in Franklin County, Iowa. It has 4,306 residents. Hampton, Iowa has a quality-of-life score of 59 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #6,394 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Iowa it ranks #245 of 281 cities and towns. It ranks best on pharmacies (high), grocery stores (high) and property crime rate (low). It ranks worst on mental health providers (low), primary care physicians (low) and new business applications (low).

59Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #6,394 of 15,651 cities and towns
Iowa: #245 of 281 in IA
Population: 4,306 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 973.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 1933960

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

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

Safety86#2,136/15,637
Economy18#12,793/15,631
Housing83#2,618/14,977
Health40#9,323/15,609
Healthcare34#10,309/15,650
Environment88#1,799/15,453
Education41#9,231/15,649
Infrastructure19#12,712/15,650
Community87#2,057/15,651
Leisure & amenities59#6,430/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Hampton, Iowa ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Franklin 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

Pharmacies · high4.1 /10k
99/100Iowa 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsFranklin County value
Grocery stores · high5.1 /10k
99/100Iowa 1.9 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsFranklin County value
Property crime rate · low165 /100k
99/100Iowa 1,172 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationFranklin County value
Social associations · high22.3 /10k
99/100Iowa 14.3 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFranklin County value
Drug overdose deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Iowa 9.4 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataFranklin County value
Public libraries · high4.0 /10k
98/100Iowa 1.8 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesFranklin County value

Weaknesses

Mental health providers · low40 /100k
4/100Iowa 226 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFranklin County value
Primary care physicians · low20 /100k
5/100Iowa 74 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFranklin County value
New business applications · low7.9 /1k
6/100Iowa 10.8 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauFranklin County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high119 mi
7/100Iowa 60 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauFranklin County value
Broadband subscriptions · low79.5%
8/100Iowa 88.8%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Primary care shortage · high17.0
9/100Iowa 7.0United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationFranklin County value

Trends

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

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
64.3% (2015-2019) → 79.5% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.6× (2015-2019) → 2.1× (2020-2024)
+33%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
31.3% (2015-2019) → 36.7% (2020-2024)
+5.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Average commute timeWorsening
15.0 min (2015-2019) → 19.0 min (2020-2024)
+27%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
10.3% (2015-2019) → 13.3% (2020-2024)
+3 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Poverty rateImproving
20.6% (2015-2019) → 18.1% (2020-2024)
−2.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%

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, Hampton, Iowa improved on 1 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 12 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.

Improved1

Broadband+15 points64.3% → 79.5%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Hampton, Iowa between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	15.0 min2015-2019	19.0 min2020-2024	+4.0 min	Within the margin of error	14%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.0%2015-2019	15.8%2020-2024	−2.2 points	Within the margin of error	15%
Broadband subscriptions	64.3%2015-2019	79.5%2020-2024	+15 points	Improved	80%
Child poverty rate	33.1%2015-2019	32.3%2020-2024	−0.9 points	Within the margin of error	50%
Effective property tax rate	1.55%2015-2019	1.41%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	45%
High school diploma or higher	87.0%2015-2019	86.5%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	28%
Home price to income ratio	1.6×2015-2019	2.1×2020-2024	+0.5×	Within the margin of error	46%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4582015-2019	0.4242020-2024	−0.035	Within the margin of error	77%
Median household income	$52,9612015-2019	$47,0882020-2024	−11%	Within the margin of error	3%
Poverty rate	20.6%2015-2019	18.1%2020-2024	−2.5 points	Within the margin of error	66%
Rent as share of income	21.5%2015-2019	21.0%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	59%
Rent-burdened households	31.3%2015-2019	36.7%2020-2024	+5.4 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	10.3%2015-2019	13.3%2020-2024	+3 points	Within the margin of error	19%

“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 Hampton, Iowa five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Hampton, 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, Hampton, Iowa itself moved −6.6 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

4,306 residents (±27)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

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

Household income

1,816 households (±126)

Hampton, Iowa
Iowa share

Under $25k28%†502
$25k–50k28%†509
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,816 households (±126)

Hampton, Iowa
Iowa share

Own67%1,218
Rent33%598

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,846 workers (±169)

Hampton, Iowa
Iowa share

Drive alone83%1,541
Carpool8.4%†155
Public transit0.0%0

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 Franklin County, the county holding most of Hampton's residents.

Franklin County has 285 employer establishments, 288 for every 10,000 residents (1.16× the US rate of 248; 1.11× Iowa's), with 3,139 paid employees at an average annual pay of $50,740. The Census Bureau also counts 738 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 285; 738 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 288; US 248 · Iowa 259
Paid employees: 3,139
Average annual pay: $50,740; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	20	20.2	1.31×More than typical	101	$64,792	48
Religious organizations	19	19.2	3.47×More than typical	74	$14,027	—
Truck transportation	14	14.2	2.80×More than typical	23	$45,261	64
Restaurants and other eating places	12	12.1	0.66×Fewer than typical	127	$13,543	—
Ambulatory health care services	11	11.1	0.53×Fewer than typical	72	$60,000	21
Insurance agencies and brokerages	11	11.1	2.53×More than typical	21	$54,667	17
Automotive repair and maintenance	9	9.1	1.81×Too few to compare	36	$32,528	14
Construction of buildings	9	9.1	1.20×Too few to compare	84	$86,048	21
Building equipment contractors	8	8.1	1.35×Too few to compare	36	$44,139	8
Full-service restaurants	8	8.1	1.05×Too few to compare	38	$12,211	—
Gasoline stations	8	8.1	2.50×Too few to compare	138	$22,739	—
Offices of other health practitioners	8	8.1	1.33×Too few to compare	43	$61,419	12

Rank places for an industry Open Franklin County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 9,881 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

In FY2026, an estimated $2,562 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Hampton, Iowa: $0.60 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $2,562; −89% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.60; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Department of Veterans Affairs$2,562100%

Top recipients

ABCM CORPORATION$2,562100%

Spending by fiscal year

19KFY2017
18.4KFY2018
12.7KFY2019
17.9KFY2020
22.1KFY2021
11.9KFY2022
14.7KFY2023
21.5K

Top industries (NAICS)

Nursing care facilities (skilled nursing facilities) · 6231$2,562100%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Hampton, Iowa, so they do not add up across cities.

Hampton, Iowa's figures are part of those of Franklin County, IA ($85.9K in FY2026), never added to them: 3.0% of that total.

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

See federal money in Franklin 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.

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

House

Randy FeenstraR-IA-4 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 1.6%

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.

Franklin County83100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Franklin 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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