Allison, Iowa.
Typical home $172,093 (+4.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$478 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,024 +4%
- $165,069$172,093 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,974 +27%
- $135,119$172,093 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.
- Allison$903
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Allison, IA rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Allison, Butler County, Iowa
Allison is a city of 966 people in Butler County. Half its households earn more than $64,063 a year and half less, against $73,715 across Butler County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Butler County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Allison is a small Iowa city and the seat of Butler County, a place where most homes are lived in by their owners and neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes in town run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July, with a fair amount of 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 Butler County, some of the largest workplaces are Unverferth Manufacturing, Trinity Rail Maintenance Services and the Aplington-Parkersburg Comm School District. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many towns, and most people drive to work rather than doing it from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Beeds Lake State Park and Hartman Reserve Nature Center are protected areas, and the Shell Rock River is a river to visit, all a longer drive away. Of these, the Shell Rock River is the one best known.
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- 413households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Butler County had 3,676 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Allison weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Butler County
- Unverferth ManufacturingWagons, farm-type, manufacturing433
- Trinity Rail Maintenance ServicesRailroad rolling stock manufacturing239
- Aplington-Parkersburg Comm School DistrictSchool district129FTE
- North Butler Comm School DistrictSchool district84FTE
- Menards"concrete block and brick manufacturing"75
- Maple Manor VillageSkilled nursing facilities67
- Rehabilitation Center of AllisonSkilled nursing facilities67
- Clarksville Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation CenterSkilled nursing facilities63
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,305 people in all across the county; Allison has one of its own. 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Allison’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 Butler County.
Allison home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Allison$172,093
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Allison10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Allison address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Allison — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.