Marion County Development and Maxfield Research and Consulting released the 2024 Marion County Comprehensive Housing Assessment findings last week. 

The assessment found that Marion County’s total housing demand from all five submarkets is 3,067 by the year 2035. Within that total housing demand is the need for 1,349 senior housing units, 1,027 for-sale housing units and 691 rental housing units. According to the data collected in the study, there were an estimated 19,110 jobs in Marion County In 2023. Additionally, the assessment showed a projected increase of 24.5% in the number of jobs in the county from 2020 to 2030. Marion County Development Executive Director Carla Eysink said that the goal of the study was to help address the local housing needs.

“Part of our role is to provide the information for decision makers, so that they can move forward with the projects and we can work together to help address the tremendous need of over 3,000 units in the county by 2030.”

Find the presentation of the 2024 Marion County Comprehensive Housing Assessment here, and hear more about the assessment on today’s In Touch with South Central Iowa.