Corning, Iowa.
Typical home $144,619 (-0.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$399 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,293 -1%
- $145,912$144,619 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,935 +27%
- $113,684$144,619 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.
- Corning$759
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Corning, IA fell 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Corning, Adams County, Iowa
Corning is a city of 1,564 people in Adams County. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Adams County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Corning is a small city and the seat of Adams County, in southwest Iowa. The population is older than in most places, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with a fair amount of rain through the year, and July brings warm summer days.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Corning are Corning Comm School District, CHI Health Mercy Corning and Hy-Vee. Commutes are short, and the county has seen fewer jobs than the year before, with unemployment a little higher than a year earlier.
Things to do. The Corning Opera House, a theatre in or beside town, is the closest of the nearby places. Lake Icaria, a reservoir a short drive away, is the nearest spot for time on the water. For a longer outing, Green Valley State Park, a protected area a longer drive away, offers more room to roam.
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- 694households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Adams County had 1,168 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 28 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Corning weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Corning
- Corning Comm School DistrictSchool district77FTE
- CHI Health Mercy CorningCritical access hospital67FTE
- Care Initiatives35
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 131 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Corning’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 Adams County.
Corning home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Corning$144,619
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Corning11
Zip codes with a Corning address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Corning — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.