Peosta, Iowa Peosta, Iowa Peosta is a town/city in Dubuque County, Iowa, United States, and an exurb of the town/city of Dubuque.
The populace was 1,377 in the 2010 census, an increase of 111.5% from 651 in the 2000 census. Peosta experienced a 70% increase in populace (estimated) from 2000 to 2007, making it the state's 10th fastest-growing town/city during that period. Peosta is presently the seventh-largest town/city in Dubuque County, but it will likely soon pass Farley (pop.
The improve is home to the 2015 ASA D Northern Nationals Men's Slow Pitch Champions, Kass & Company, a large industrialized park, the biggest campus of Northeast Iowa Community College, and a handful of new commercial businesses.
Peosta is titled after the prestige of a small-town Native American tribe that once lived in Dubuque County.
Dubuque was also the founder of the City of Dubuque, Iowa, and was allegedly married to Chief Peosta's daughter, who was reportedly titled "Potosa".
The town/city was also aided by the opening of Northeast Iowa Technical Institute (later NICC) in 1979.
However, it wasn't until the city's industrialized park began to flourish in the 1990s that the populace began to soar.
The town/city now boasts two elementary schools, its own improve center, hotel, church, industrialized park, and expanding neighborhoods.
Peosta has a mayor-council form of government, employing a full-time town/city clerk, and part-time town/city council (mayor and 5 at-large town/city council members).
Peosta has 3 town/city departments: Public Safety (police & fire), Public Works, and Parks & Recreation.
Operates the Peosta Community Centre and Peosta's town/city park.
In the Iowa General Assembly, Peosta is represented by Senator Tom Hancock (D-Epworth) in the Iowa Senate, and Representative Ray Zirkelbach (D-Monticello) in the Iowa House of Representatives.
Peosta, and all of Iowa, are represented by U.S.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.97 square miles (5.10 km2), all of it land. Most of the companies in the town/city are mostly new, which has led to a momentous number of commuters driving to Peosta's employers from Dubuque, Asbury, or Dyersville.
Also, Northeast Iowa Community College employs hundreds of citizens at its Peosta Campus.
Population history of Peosta, Iowa (1940-2006).
As of the census of 2010, there were 1,377 citizens , 438 homeholds, and 369 families residing in the city.
There were 438 homeholds of which 61.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 71.9% were married couples living together, 9.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 2.7% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 15.8% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 30.2 years.
As of the census of 2000, there were 651 citizens , 223 homeholds, and 183 families residing in the city.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $56,250, and the median income for a family was $56,797.
All enhance school students living in Peosta are zoned to schools in the Western Dubuque Community School District.
Elementary school students are zoned to Peosta Elementary School (in Peosta) for grades K-4.
Middle school students are zoned to Drexler Middle School in Farley, Iowa, and high school students are zoned to Western Dubuque High School, in close-by Epworth, Iowa.
Like many other non-urban communities in Iowa, Peosta also has a private school.
Seton Catholic Elementary School- Peosta is one of two buildings that comprise Seton Catholic Elementary School, and is affiliated with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque.
For high school, parochial students attend Beckman High School in Dyersville, Iowa or Wahlert High School in Dubuque, Iowa.
For higher education, Peosta benefits from a ground of Northeast Iowa Community College, which includes large nursing, welding, business, and computer programs, among other majors.
Most of the students at the school transfer to other 4-year colleges, including many to the 3 small universities in Dubuque: Clarke College, Loras College, and University of Dubuque.
Dubuque County, Iowa "Peosta town/city council information".
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