Blencoe, Iowa.
Typical home $139,264 (-1.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$269 (+58%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,544 -2%
- $141,808$139,264 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $2,061 +2%
- $137,203$139,264 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.
- Blencoe$731
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Blencoe, IA fell 1.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Blencoe, Monona County, Iowa
Blencoe is a city of 233 people in Monona County. Half its households earn more than $86,875 a year and half less, against $68,377 across Monona County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Monona County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Monona County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Blencoe is a very small city in Monona County, in western Iowa, with a population that makes it feel more like a village than a town. Household incomes here run well above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Homes are modestly priced, and a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than in many places.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, manufacturing and shops. Across Monona County, the largest workplaces include Burgess Health Center, a critical access hospital, and the Maple Valley-Anthon Oto and West Monona school districts. The county has added a few more jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment is unchanged from last year.
Things to do. Lewis and Clark State Park and the Loess Hills are both a short drive away, and the Onawa IOOF Opera House, a theatre, is close by as well. For a longer outing, DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge is a longer drive away. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and precipitation is moderate across the year.
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- 117households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
What people in Monona County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Monona County had 2,556 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 62°. About 46 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Little Sioux Northwest weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Monona County
- Burgess Health CenterCritical access hospital153FTE
- Maple Valley-Anthon Oto Comm School DistrictSchool district109FTE
- West Monona Comm School DistrictSchool district106FTE
- Maple HeightsNursing homes90
- Whiting Comm School DistrictSchool district43FTE
- Trivium Life Services (Onawa)Habilitation job counseling and training, vocational42
- Westendorf Mfg CoBalers, farm-type, manufacturing38
- AVE PLP423820 farm and garden machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 234 people in all across the county; Blencoe has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- HailVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Blencoe’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 Monona County.
Blencoe home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Blencoe$139,264
- 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 Blencoe address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Blencoe — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.