Buckingham, Iowa.
Typical home $366,459 (+5.3% in a year). Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,070 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,360 +5%
- $348,099$366,459 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $83,898 +30%
- $282,560$366,459 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.
- Buckingham$1,923
- 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 Buckingham, IA rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buckingham, Tama County, Iowa
Buckingham is a township of 267 people in Tama County. Half its households earn more than $99,091 a year and half less, against $70,781 across Tama County. Unemployment in Tama County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tama County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buckingham is a very small township in Tama County, with a population that could fit in a single school gymnasium. Household incomes here run well above the county's, while the typical home is valued at a high level for a place this size. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. People who live in Buckingham work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail shops and the building trades also common. Across Tama County, some of the largest workplaces are Iowa Premium, South Tama County Schools and Sunny Hill Care Center. The commute is a moderate one, and only a small share of people work from home. Unemployment in the county is about where it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Hartman Reserve Nature Center is a protected area and Union Grove State Park is another, both a longer drive away. The Cedar Valley Arboretum & Botanic Gardens, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive away and suits a slower day out. The Shell Rock River is a river within reach of the same kind of outing.
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- 25 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Tama County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tama County had 5,391 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 33 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Toledo 3N weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tama County
- Iowa PremiumBeef produced in slaughtering plants857
- South Tama County SchoolsSchool district225FTE
- North Tama County Comm School DistrictSchool district86FTE
- Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., Toledo, IA ProductionSeed processing, post-harvest for propagation83
- Sunny Hill Care CenterNursing homes75
- Fareway Stores, Inc. 792 ToledoGrocery stores64
- Accura HealthCare of ToledoSkilled nursing facilities54
- Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc - Dysart SPSCSeed processing, post-harvest for propagation53
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,383 people in all across the county; Buckingham 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
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Tama County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Tama County and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA metro.
Buckingham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buckingham$366,459
- 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 Buckingham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buckingham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.