Ashton, Iowa.
Typical home $180,342 (+7.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$415 (+78%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $12,753 +8%
- $167,589$180,342 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.
- Ashton$947
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Ashton, IA rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ashton, Osceola County, Iowa
Ashton is a city of 436 people in Osceola County. Half its households earn more than $57,375 a year and half less, against $69,239 across Osceola County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Osceola County was 2.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ashton is a small city in Osceola County in northwest Iowa, where household incomes run below the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and winters are cold and snowy while summers are warm. Life here is quiet and close-knit, with neighbors who know one another.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in the building trades. Most people have a short drive to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. The Rock River, a river a longer drive away, offers a natural outing for those who enjoy water and open country. Indian Lake, also a longer drive away, is a lake suited to a day trip. The Dinehart-Holt House, a museum a longer drive away, and the Cayler Prairie State Preserve, a protected area a longer drive away, are both worth a visit.
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- 212households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Osceola County had 2,641 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 42 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sibley weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Osceola County
- Sonstegrad FoodsEgg production, chicken338
- Sibley-Ocheyedan Comm School DistrictSchool district130FTE
- Osceola Regional Health CenterCritical access hospital82FTE
- Care Initiatives55
- Cooperative Farmers ElevatorGrain elevators merchant wholesalers grain53
- POET Bioprocessing - AshtonDenatured alcohol manufacturing44
- Cooperative Energy CompanyConvenience food with gasoline stations43
- Bosma Poultry GroupLivestock trucking, long-distance29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 759 people in all across the county; Ashton has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ashton’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 Osceola County.
Ashton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ashton$180,342
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Ashton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ashton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.