Iowa EDA University Center Targeted Communities

Iowa has nine metropolitan areas composed of twenty-one Iowa counties and eleven out-of-state counties. The nine metro areas are: Ames, Cedar Rapids, Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, Des Moines-West Des Moines, Dubuque, Iowa City, Omaha-Council Bluffs, Sioux City, and Waterloo-Cedar Falls.

Ref: ISU Iowa Community Indicators Program (ICIP)

There are 35 Iowa communities with populations between 5,000 and 25,000 that are within 45 miles of one of these metro centers. The communities are shown below.

Prospective iWin Communities

Anamosa	Indianola	Pella
Atlantic	Iowa Falls	Perry
Boone	Knoxville	Red Oak
Charles City	Le Mars	Sheldon
Cherokee	Manchester	Shenandoah
Creston	Maquoketa	Sioux Center
De Witt	Mount Pleasant	Vinton
Decorah	Muscatine	Washington
Glenwood	Nevada	Waverly
Grinnell	Newton	Webster City
Harlan	Oelwein	Winterset
Independence	Orange City

Here are the Preliminary Economic analyses on these communities.

CIRAS staff will be closely working with nearly one-third of these communities over the five-year span of the Iowa EDA University Center program (2018-2023).