Iowa keeps 4 House seats

For at least the next decade, Iowa will retain four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Data released this week from the U.S. Census Bureau showed Iowa was one of 38 states that didn't gain or lose U.S. House representation following the most recent decennial population count. Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon gained one seat apiece, while Texas gained two. California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia each lost a seat.

According to census data, Iowa's population increased 4.7 percent in the last decade to 3,190,369 people. Among other things, the tally is used to allocate congressional representation in the U.S. House. At its peak in the early 1900s, Iowa had 11 delegates in Congress.

The first data released from last year's census showed that the resident population of all 50 states and the District of Columbia was 331,449,281 as of April 1, 2020, an increase of 7.4 percent since the 2010 Census. More detailed information, including populations of cities, will be released later this year.

The 2010 Census pegged Hartley's population at 1,672, while Everly's was 603 and Royal's was 446.