Doon, Iowa.
Typical home $295,691 (+14.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$805 (+108%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $36,573 +14%
- $259,118$295,691 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.
- Doon$1,552
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Doon, IA rose 14.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Doon, Lyon County, Iowa
Doon is a city of 619 people in Lyon County. Half its households earn more than $63,750 a year and half less, against $76,746 across Lyon County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Lyon County was 2.2% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Doon is a small city in Lyon County, Iowa, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run below the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a town this size. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people get to work in a short drive.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with building trades, manufacturing, and professional and business services close behind. Across Lyon County, some of the largest workplaces are Sudenga Industries, which makes farm-type feed processing equipment, Dutchland Foods, a maker of frozen pastries, and the West Lyon Comm School District. Unemployment in the county is low and slightly lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The nearest places worth a trip are a longer drive away. The Rock River, one of the best known waterways around, is a place to be by the water, and Gitchie Manitou State Preserve is a protected area for walking and looking at the land. Blood Run Site is an archaeological site for anyone interested in the region's early history. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July, so the seasons shape when a day out makes the most sense.
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- 247households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lyon County had 4,951 jobs in 2025, 3.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 35 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rock Rapids weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lyon County
- Sudenga IndustriesFeed processing equipment, farm-type, manufacturing205
- West Lyon Comm School DistrictSchool district122FTE
- Central Lyon Comm School DistrictSchool district117FTE
- Dutchland FoodsManufacturer of frozen pastries96
- George-Little Rock Comm School DistrictSchool district65FTE
- Good Samaritan Society - GeorgeSkilled nursing facilities50
- Care Initiatives48
- Avera Merrill Pioneer HospitalCritical access hospital42FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 567 people in all across the county; Doon has none of its own. 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
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Doon’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 Lyon County.
Doon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Doon$295,691
- 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.
- Doon5
Zip codes with a Doon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Doon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.