Bouton, Iowa.
Typical home $274,635 (-0.4% in a year). Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$788 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,075 -0%
- $275,710$274,635 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,437 +28%
- $214,198$274,635 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.
- Bouton$1,441
- 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 Bouton, IA fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bouton, Dallas County, Iowa
Bouton is a city of 127 people in Dallas County. Unemployment in Dallas County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dallas County work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bouton is a very small Iowa city in Dallas County, home to only a few score people, so it has the quiet and familiarity of a place where neighbors know one another. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm, and July is the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount across the year.
Work. Residents of Bouton most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by banks, insurance and property, professional and business services, and shops. Across Dallas County, some of the largest workplaces are the Waukee Comm School District, Hy-Vee and Methodist West Hospital. Unemployment in the county is no higher than it was a year ago, and the county has gained jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Iowa Arboretum and Forest Park Museum and Arboretum are both botanical gardens a short drive away, good for a walk among planted trees and gardens. Ledges State Park, a protected natural area, is a longer drive away. The Iowa State Capitol, a museum, is also a longer drive.
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- 21 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Dallas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dallas County had 56,432 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Perry weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dallas County
- Wright Tree ServiceTree and brush trimming, overhead utility line4,194
- Waukee Comm School DistrictSchool district1,788FTE
- Hy-VeeCorporate, subsidiary, and regional managing offices1,062
- ITA GroupGeneral management consulting services860
- Wright ServiceLandscaping services660
- Methodist West HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical502
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores498
- Dallas Center-Grimes Comm School DistrictSchool district490FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 82 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,801 people in all across the county; Bouton has none 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively 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 Bouton’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 Dallas County and the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro.
Bouton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bouton$274,635
- 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 Bouton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bouton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.