Cleghorn, Iowa.
Typical home $177,493 (-0.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$362 (+64%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $1,145 -1%
- $178,639$177,493 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.
- Cleghorn$932
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Cleghorn, IA fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cleghorn, Cherokee County, Iowa
Cleghorn is a city of 240 people in Cherokee County. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Cherokee County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cherokee County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cleghorn is a very small city in Cherokee County, in northwest Iowa, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Typical home values are modest, and fewer residents hold a four-year degree than is common nationally. Winters are cold and snowy, with January highs staying below freezing, and summers turn warm in July.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and farming. Very few work from home. Across Cherokee County, the largest workplaces include Cherokee Regional Medical Center, the Cherokee Comm School District, and the Hy-Vee warehousing operation. Unemployment in the county is low and has changed little from a year ago.
Things to do. The Cherokee Sewer Site, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Living Heritage Tree Museum, as well as Pierson Creek, a river that suits time outdoors. The Indian Village Site, another archaeological site, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 128households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What people in Cherokee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cherokee County had 4,908 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 38 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cherokee weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cherokee County
- Hy-VeeGeneral warehousing and storage352
- Cherokee Regional Medical CenterCritical access hospital209FTE
- Cherokee Comm School DistrictSchool district177FTE
- Mental Health InstitutePsychiatric hospital153FTE
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores110
- Fareway Stores, Inc. 502 CherokeeGrocery stores82
- Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., Cherokee ProductionSeed processing, post-harvest for propagation81
- Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn Comm School DistrictSchool district80FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,629 people in all across the county; Cleghorn has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cleghorn’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 Cherokee County.
Cleghorn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cleghorn$177,493
- 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 Cleghorn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cleghorn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.