Conesville, Iowa.
Typical home $148,923 (+11.0% in a year). Muscatine, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$416 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,815 +11%
- $134,108$148,923 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,843 +32%
- $113,079$148,923 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.
- Conesville$782
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Conesville, IA rose 11.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Conesville, Louisa County, Iowa
Conesville is a city of 352 people in Louisa County. Unemployment in Louisa County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 5.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Louisa 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Conesville is a very small Iowa city in Louisa County, the kind of place where neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are modestly priced, and household incomes across the county run a little below the middle of the pack for Iowa towns. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and almost no one works from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, schools, hospitals and social care, shops, and the building trades. Across Louisa County, the largest workplaces include Tyson Fresh Meats, the Louisa-Muscatine Comm School District and the Columbus Comm School District. Jobs across the county slipped a bit last year, and unemployment is lower than a year ago. The typical commute is a moderate drive, so many people travel to work outside town.
Things to do. Cedar River and Goose Creek are both a short drive away, and make for time near the water. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, a museum, and to Wildcat Den State Park, a protected natural area. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year, so the outdoors suits the milder seasons best.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Louisa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Louisa County had 3,697 jobs in 2025, 5.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° 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 Columbus Junction weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Louisa County
- Tyson Fresh MeatsAnimal slaughtering1,305
- Louisa-Muscatine Comm School DistrictSchool district136FTE
- Columbus Comm School DistrictSchool district104FTE
- MidAmerican Energy CompanyElectric power generation, fossil fuel98
- Wapello Comm School DistrictSchool district96FTE
- Fortrex - 0057 Tyson Foods Inc. - Columbus JunctionJanitorial services87
- Care Initiatives72
- Colonial ManorNursing homes62
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,693 people in all across the county; Conesville has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Strong windVery high
- HailVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Conesville’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 Louisa County and the Muscatine, IA metro.
Conesville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Conesville$148,923
- 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 Conesville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Conesville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.