Clearfield, Iowa.
Typical home $144,985 (+18.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$434 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,110 +18%
- $122,875$144,985 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,315 +32%
- $109,670$144,985 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.
- Clearfield$761
- 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 Clearfield, IA rose 18.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clearfield, Ringgold County, Iowa
Clearfield is a city of 278 people in Ringgold County. Unemployment in Ringgold County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ringgold County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clearfield is a very small city in Ringgold County, in the farm country of southern Iowa. Homes here cost well below what is typical across the country, and household incomes in the county sit below the national middle. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, on farms, or in shops. Across Ringgold County, some of the largest workplaces are the Mount Ayr Comm School District, Ringgold County Hospital and Clearview Home & Estates. The typical commute is a long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake of Three Fires State Park and Green Valley State Park are both a longer drive away, as is Lake Icaria, a reservoir. The Corning Opera House, a theatre, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Ringgold County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ringgold County had 1,393 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 20 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Ayr weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ringgold County
- Mount Ayr Comm School DistrictSchool district113FTE
- Ringgold County HospitalCritical access hospital105FTE
- Clearview Home & EstatesNursing homes104
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores37
- Diagonal Comm School DistrictSchool district33FTE
- NEW Cooperative Inc. - Mount AyrFarm supplies merchant wholesalers22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 345 people in all across the county; Clearfield has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clearfield’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Ringgold County.
Clearfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clearfield$144,985
- 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 Clearfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clearfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Clearfield
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50840 | Clearfield | 552 | — | $123,606 |
| 50836 | Blockton | 304 | — | $133,528 |