Adel, Iowa.
Typical home $401,972 (+0.6% in a year), asking rent $1,094 . Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,047 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,374 +1%
- $399,598$401,972 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,216 +18%
- $339,755$401,972 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Adel$2,110
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Adel, IA rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Adel, Dallas County, Iowa
Adel is a city of 6,153 people in Dallas County. Half its households earn more than $95,250 a year and half less, against $102,379 across Dallas County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Dallas County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Adel is a small city and the seat of Dallas County, Iowa, with a population on the younger side. Incomes run a little below the county's as a whole, and most homes are lived in by their owners, with a good number of renters too. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers turn warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by banks, insurance and property, professional and business services, and shops. Among the biggest workplaces in Adel are the Adel DeSoto Minburn Community School District, Fareway Stores and OPtimae LifeServices. A fair number of people work from home, and the typical trip to work is a moderate one.
Things to do. Kuehn Conservation Area, a protected area, is a short drive away and suits a walk outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Des Moines and its surroundings, including the Iowa State Capitol, a museum, and the Des Moines Botanical Center, a botanical garden. Blank Park Zoo, also a longer drive away, is an easy outing with children or grandchildren.
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- 2,372households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dallas County had 56,432 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Perry weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Adel
- Adel DeSoto Minburn Comm School DistrictSchool district324FTE
- Fareway Stores, Inc. 124 AdelGrocery stores124
- OPtimae LifeServicesSocial service centers, multipurpose99
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 223 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Adel’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Dallas County and the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro.
Adel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Adel$401,972
- Iowa$236,623
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Adel listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Adel35.83%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Adel57
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Adel11
Zip codes with a Adel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Adel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.