Douds, Iowa.
Typical home $228,309 (+5.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$760 (+174%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,046 +5%
- $217,264$228,309 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,167 +44%
- $158,143$228,309 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.
- Douds$1,198
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Douds, IA rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Douds, Van Buren County, Iowa
Douds, in Van Buren County, had 156 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Van Buren County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Van Buren County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Douds is a very small community in Van Buren County, Iowa, home to only a few people. Residents are older on average than across much of the country. Homes here cost more than a typical household income in the county might suggest, and winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, while summers turn warm.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Van Buren County, the largest workplaces include the Van Buren County Comm School District, Van Buren County Hospital and RPI Molding. Joblessness in the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. A short drive away, the McHaffey Opera House is a theatre, and Soap Creek is a river good for a quiet walk along its banks. A longer drive brings you to Lacey-Keosauqua State Park, a protected area for hiking and time outdoors. Lake Sugema, also a longer drive away, is a lake that suits a day by the water.
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What people in Van Buren County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Van Buren County had 1,928 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 23 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Keosauqua weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Van Buren County
- Van Buren County Comm School DistrictSchool district155FTE
- Van Buren County HospitalCritical access hospital127FTE
- RPI MoldingInjection molding machinery for plastics manufacturing77
- Mid-States Mfg. & EngrPresses, metal baling, manufacturing26
- Van Buren County, IowaGeneral public administration22
- Van Buren Co Secondary RoadsCulverts, highway, road and street, construction21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 146 people in all across the county; Douds 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Douds’ 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 Van Buren County.
Douds home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Douds$228,309
- 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 Douds address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Douds — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.