Baldwin, Iowa.
Typical home $258,258 (+9.3% in a year). Clinton, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$622 (+85%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $21,893 +9%
- $236,365$258,258 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.
- Baldwin$1,356
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Baldwin, IA rose 9.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Baldwin, Jackson County, Iowa
Baldwin is a city of 99 people in Jackson County. Unemployment in Jackson County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Baldwin is a small city in Jackson County, in eastern Iowa, and its population is very small, so daily life tends to be quiet and close-knit. Winters are cold and snowy, while summers are warm, and the area receives a good deal of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, or in local shops, and some work in farming, forestry and mining. Fewer jobs were available than a year earlier, and unemployment has edged up over the same period.
Things to do. Maquoketa Caves State Park, a protected area a short drive away, is the closest and best known place to visit. Wapsipinicon State Park, another protected area, and Chestnut Mountain, a ski area, are both a longer drive away.
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- 8%below the poverty line
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 5,754 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 63°. About 30 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Maquoketa weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Family Dollar, LLC DC206General warehousing and storage237
- Maquoketa Comm School DistrictSchool district223FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters194
- HUSCO International MaquoketaValves, hydraulic and pneumatic, fluid power, manufacturing117
- Jackson County Public HospitalCritical access hospital109FTE
- Bellevue Comm School DistrictSchool district96FTE
- Plastics UnlimitedAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing90
- Imagine the PossibilitiesJob training, vocational rehabilitation or habilitation88
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,459 people in all across the county; Baldwin 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Baldwin’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 Jackson County and the Clinton, IA metro.
Baldwin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Baldwin$258,258
- 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 Baldwin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Baldwin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.