Bronson, Iowa.
Typical home $289,717 (+7.4% in a year). Sioux City, IA-NE-SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$695 (+84%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $20,031 +7%
- $269,687$289,717 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.
- Bronson$1,521
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Bronson, IA rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bronson, Woodbury County, Iowa
Bronson is a city of 294 people in Woodbury County. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Woodbury County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bronson is a very small city in Woodbury County, Iowa, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Poverty is low, and homes are valued a good deal above what most small Iowa towns see. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, while July brings warm summer days. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in banks, insurance and property. Across Woodbury County, some of the largest workplaces are Seaboard Triumph Foods, the Sioux City Community School District and St. Luke's Regional Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is close to where it stood a year ago, and the county has a few fewer jobs than the year before. A typical commute is a fairly long one, and a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Ravine Park is a park a short drive away. Farther afield, Stone State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Sioux City Art Center is a museum a longer drive away. The Big Sioux River, also a longer drive away, is one of the better known waterways in the area.
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- 125households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Woodbury County had 50,924 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sioux City Ang weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Woodbury County
- Seaboard Triumph FoodsPork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants2,953
- Sioux City Comm School DistrictSchool district1,864FTE
- St. Lukes Regl Medical CenterGeneral hospital985FTE
- Mercyone Siouxland Medical CenterGeneral hospital766FTE
- Western Iowa Tech Community CollegeTwo-year college724
- Smithfield Packaged MeatsMeats, cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses636
- Morningside UniversityUniversity or college421
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters417
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 129 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 16,660 people in all across the county; Bronson has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bronson’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 Woodbury County and the Sioux City, IA-NE-SD metro.
Bronson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bronson$289,717
- 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 Bronson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bronson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.