Dedham, Iowa.
Typical home $203,664 (+6.9% in a year). Carroll, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$465 (+77%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $13,225 +7%
- $190,439$203,664 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.
- Dedham$1,069
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Dedham, IA rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dedham, Carroll County, Iowa
Dedham is a city of 224 people in Carroll County. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Carroll County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Carroll County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dedham is a very small city in Carroll County, Iowa, where nearly every home is lived in by its owner. Typical home values sit near the middle of what many Iowa towns see, and households in the county have incomes a bit above what is common across much of the state. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with rain and melted snow spread across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and banks, insurance and property. Across Carroll County, some of the largest workplaces are Pella Corporation - Carroll Operations, St. Anthony Regional Hospital and the Carroll Community School District. Unemployment in the county is low and has held steady over the past year, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Swan Lake is a lake a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Museum of Danish America is a museum a longer drive away, and Black Hawk State Park is a protected area, also a longer drive away. Winters are cold, so most outings suit the warmer months.
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- 87households
What people in Carroll County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carroll County had 10,938 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carroll weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carroll County
- Core-Mark Iowa700
- Pella Corporation - Carroll OperationsFrames, door and window, wood, manufacturing518
- St. Anthony Regional HospitalGeneral hospital312FTE
- Carroll Comm School DistrictSchool district284FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters237
- ASB Sports AcquisitionSporting goods manufacturing170
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores154
- Fareway Stores, Inc. 409 CarrollGrocery stores134
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 36 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,878 people in all across the county; Dedham 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dedham’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 Carroll County and the Carroll, IA metro.
Dedham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dedham$203,664
- 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 Dedham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dedham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.