Clermont, Iowa.
Typical home $203,112 (+6.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$606 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,185 +6%
- $190,927$203,112 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,861 +39%
- $146,251$203,112 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.
- Clermont$1,066
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Clermont, IA rose 6.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clermont, Fayette County, Iowa
Clermont is a city of 586 people in Fayette County. Half its households earn more than $85,625 a year and half less, against $60,165 across Fayette County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Fayette County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clermont is a small city in Fayette County, in northeast Iowa, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and wholesale also employing a good share. Across Fayette County, some of the largest workplaces are Upper Iowa University, Palmer Lutheran Health Center and the Oelwein Comm School District. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults here than is common in many places, and few people work from home, so most head out to a job each day.
Things to do. Effigy Mounds National Monument, an archaeological site, is the best known of the places around Clermont, though it is a longer drive away. Also a longer drive away is the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, a museum devoted to Norwegian-American history and culture. Yellow River State Forest, a protected area, is another longer drive away for anyone who likes to be outdoors.
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- 284households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fayette County had 6,976 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 40 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Postville weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fayette County
- Upper Iowa UniversityUniversity or college399
- East Penn OelweinMotor vehicle supplies and new parts merchant wholesalers343
- Oelwein Comm School DistrictSchool district213FTE
- North Fayette Valley Comm School DistrictSchool district172FTE
- Palmer Lutheran Health CenterCritical access hospital135FTE
- Grandview Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities110
- Fareway Stores, Inc. 412 OelweinGrocery stores105
- Starmont Comm School DistrictSchool district103FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,463 people in all across the county; Clermont has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clermont’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 Fayette County.
Clermont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clermont$203,112
- 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 Clermont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clermont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.