Akron, Iowa.
Typical home $233,830 (+6.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$707 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,912 +6%
- $219,918$233,830 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,434 +37%
- $170,396$233,830 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.
- Akron$1,227
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Akron, IA rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Akron, Plymouth County, Iowa
Akron is a city of 1,558 people in Plymouth County. Half its households earn more than $66,250 a year and half less, against $83,251 across Plymouth County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Plymouth County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Akron is a small city in Plymouth County, Iowa, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and a typical home is worth less than many would expect of a place with this much space around it. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, and summers turn warm in July.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing also common. Heyl Truck Lines, the Akron Westfield Comm School District and Akron Care Center are among the largest workplaces in Akron. Fewer people hold a four-year degree than in many places, the typical commute is moderate, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Akron Opera House is a theatre in or beside town. A longer drive brings you to Ponca State Park and Stone State Park, both protected areas with room to walk and look out over the river country, and to the National Music Museum, a museum devoted to musical instruments.
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- 770households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Plymouth County had 11,642 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 31 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hawarden weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Akron
- Heyl Truck LinesGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload522
- Heyl ManagementGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload144
- Akron Westfield Comm School DistrictSchool district100FTE
- Akron Care CenterCont care retirement communities79
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 745 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
- HailVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Akron’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Plymouth County.
Akron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Akron$233,830
- 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.
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Akron10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Akron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Akron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.