West Des Moines is a city in
Polk,
Dallas,
Warren counties in the US state of
Iowa. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 56,609. West Des Moines is the second-largest city in the
Des Moines metropolitan area and the tenth-largest city in Iowa. It ranked 94th in
Money magazine's list of the "100 Best Places to Live and Launch" in 2008, 77th and 57th on the 100 Best Places to Live in 2014 and 2015, respectively, and 18th on the
Hipster Cities of 2015.