Cedar Rapids

Also known as Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Cedar Rapids, IA

city in and seat of Linn County, Iowa, United States

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Cedar Rapids is a city in Iowa that serves as the county seat of Linn County. It is the second-largest city in Iowa and an important regional center for commerce, culture, and government in the state.

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Official name: Cedar Rapids
Population: 120758
Area: 186.661642
Elevation: 247
Official website: www.cedar-rapids.org
Image: Cedar Rapids skyline.jpg
Households: 55784
Dialing code: 319

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Commons category: Cedar Rapids, Iowa
postal code: 52499
inception: 1849-00-00
P8168: Brassy
water as percent of area: 1.7644
per capita income: 34019

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Cedar Rapids is a city in Linn County, Iowa, United States, and the county seat. The population was 137,710 at the 2020 census, and was estimated at 137,904 in 2024. making it the second-most populous city in Iowa. The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River, 20 miles (32 km) north of Iowa City and 128 miles (206 km) northeast of Des Moines, the state's capital.

Cedar Rapids is the economic hub of Eastern Iowa, located at the core of the Interstate 380 corridor. The population of the three-county Cedar Rapids metropolitan area, which includes the nearby cities of Marion and Hiawatha, was 276,520 in 2020. The Cedar Rapids metropolitan area is also part of a combined statistical area with the Iowa City metropolitan area.