Cascade, Iowa.
Typical home $294,709 (+6.0% in a year). Cedar Rapids, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$853 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,661 +6%
- $278,048$294,709 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $74,329 +34%
- $220,380$294,709 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.
- Cascade$1,547
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Cascade, IA rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cascade, Jones County, Iowa
Cascade is a city of 2,386 people in Jones County. Half its households earn more than $69,688 a year and half less, against $73,531 across Jones County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Jones County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cascade is a small city in Jones County, a place where people tend to know one another. The population is younger than in many small Iowa towns, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values sit at a moderate level for a place of this kind. Winters are cold, with January highs around the freezing mark or below, summers turn warm, and the year brings a fair amount of snow along with steady rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in Cascade are Cascade Manufacturing Company, which makes wood roof and floor trusses, American-Iowa Manufacturing, which builds powered agricultural-type lawnmowers, and Cascade Lumber Company, a building materials supplier. Commutes are short, and jobs across the county have edged up over the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Maquoketa Caves State Park is a protected area and Wapsipinicon State Park is another, and both are a longer drive away. The National Farm Toy Museum, also a longer drive away, suits a quieter afternoon. The Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical Gardens is a longer drive away too, and it is a pleasant place for a slow walk.
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- 933households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jones County had 6,279 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more 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 83° and lows near 63°. About 31 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cascade weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cascade
- Cascade Manufacturing CompanyTrusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing62
- American-Iowa ManufacturingLawnmowers, agricultural-type, powered, manufacturing41
- Cascade Mfg CoTrusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing27
- Cascade Lumber CompanyHome centers, building materials25
- CentroMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 177 people in all. 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Cascade’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 Jones County and the Cedar Rapids, IA metro.
Cascade home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cascade$294,709
- Iowa$236,623
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cascade7
Zip codes with a Cascade address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cascade — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.