Avoca, Iowa.
Typical home $235,314 (+0.4% in a year). Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$666 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $991 +0%
- $234,324$235,314 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,225 +31%
- $179,089$235,314 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.
- Avoca$1,235
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Avoca, IA rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Avoca, Pottawattamie County, Iowa
Avoca is a city of 1,683 people in Pottawattamie County. Half its households earn more than $73,056 a year and half less, against $73,602 across Pottawattamie County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Pottawattamie County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Avoca is a small city in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, where residents tend to be somewhat older than in many towns. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in transport and warehousing, and in banks, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces in Avoca are the AHSTW Comm School District, Estes Express Lines and Care Initiatives. The typical commute is a moderate one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Prairie Rose State Park and Lake Anita State Park are both a longer drive away, as is Hitchcock Nature Center, a protected area. The Museum of Danish America, also a longer drive away, is a good stop for anyone curious about the region's Danish heritage.
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- 706households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pottawattamie County had 41,804 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 30 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Harlan weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Avoca
- AHSTW Comm School DistrictSchool district126FTE
- Estes Express Lines60
- Care Initiatives45
- MidAmerican Energy CompanyDistribution of electric power21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 126 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Avoca’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 Pottawattamie County and the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
Avoca home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Avoca$235,314
- 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.
- Avoca13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Avoca address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Avoca — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.