Coin, Iowa.
Typical home $160,738 (+1.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$314 (+59%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $2,460 +2%
- $158,278$160,738 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.
- Coin$844
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Coin, IA rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Coin, Page County, Iowa
Coin is a city of 176 people in Page County. Unemployment in Page County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Page County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Coin is a very small city in southwest Iowa, one of the smallest places on the map, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here cost well below what is typical across much of the country, and incomes across Page County run below the state's usual level. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and snow is part of the season, while July brings real warmth.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, with some farming as well. Across Page County, the largest workplaces include Pella Corperation, which makes door frames and sash, and Clarinda Regional Health Center, a critical access hospital. Unemployment in the county is low and little changed from a year earlier, though the county had fewer jobs last year than the year before, and only a small share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Most of what lies close by is water. West Mill Creek, Middle Mill Creek and East Mill Creek are all a short drive away, and they suit a quiet walk along the banks. For a longer outing, the Nodaway River is a longer drive away.
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What people in Page County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Page County had 6,243 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 26 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shenandoah weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Page County
- Pella CorperationDoor frames and sash, wood and covered wood, manufacturing361
- Clarinda Regional Health CenterCritical access hospital320FTE
- LisleHand and edge tool manufacturing260
- Shenandoah Medical CenterCritical access hospital243FTE
- Clarinda Correctional FacilityPrisons234
- Shenandoah Comm School DistrictSchool district180FTE
- Clarinda Comm School DistrictSchool district164FTE
- NSKBall bearings manufacturing162
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,399 people in all across the county; Coin has none 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Coin’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 Page County.
Coin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Coin$160,738
- 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 Coin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Coin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.