Albion, Iowa.
Typical home $186,531 (+3.7% in a year). Marshalltown, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$319 (+48%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $6,720 +4%
- $179,811$186,531 since Sep 2025
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.
- Albion$979
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Albion, IA rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Albion, Marshall County, Iowa
Albion is a city of 448 people in Marshall County. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Marshall County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marshall County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Albion is a very small city in Marshall County, Iowa, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Typical home values are modest, and incomes in the county are on the low side compared with much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; precipitation falls as rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Marshall County, some of the largest workplaces are Swift Pork Company Marshalltown, Lennox Residential Marshalltown and the Marshalltown Community School District. The commute is a fairly long one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Minerva Creek is a river in or beside town, and the Glick-Sower House, a museum, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Rock Creek State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Matchstick Marvels Museum is a museum also a longer drive away.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Marshall County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marshall County had 15,942 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marshalltown Municipal Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marshall County
- Swift Pork Company MarshalltownPork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants2,308
- Lennox Residential MarshalltownAir-conditioning and warm air heating combination units manufacturing734
- Marshalltown Comm School DistrictSchool district731FTE
- Fisher Controls InternationalControl valves, industrial-type, manufacturing445
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs332
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters325
- Unitypoint Health-marshalltownGeneral hospital260FTE
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores238
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 41 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,777 people in all across the county; Albion has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Albion’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 Marshall County and the Marshalltown, IA metro.
Albion home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Albion$186,531
- Iowa$236,623
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Albion address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Albion — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Albion
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50005 | Albion | 812 | — | $181,185 |
| 50148 | Liscomb | 406 | — | $180,439 |