Dunlap, Iowa.
Typical home $201,629 (+10.2% in a year). Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$647 (+157%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,708 +10%
- $182,921$201,629 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,513 +48%
- $136,115$201,629 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.
- Dunlap$1,058
- 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 Dunlap, IA rose 10.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dunlap, Harrison County, Iowa
Dunlap is a city of 1,038 people in Harrison County. Half its households earn more than $49,375 a year and half less, against $79,535 across Harrison County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Harrison County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dunlap is a small city in Harrison County, Iowa, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes in town run well below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and snow comes through the season; summers turn properly warm in July, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. In Dunlap itself, the largest workplaces include Boyer Valley Comm School District, Care Initiatives and Quality Liquid Feeds Inc. - Dunlap, which makes cattle feeds and supplements. A typical commute is a moderate drive, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Prairie Rose State Park is a park a longer drive away, as is the Loess Hills, one of the better known landscapes in this part of Iowa. Preparation Canyon State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area for walking and quiet. The Onawa IOOF Opera House, a theatre a longer drive away, offers an evening out.
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- 579households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harrison County had 4,087 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 29 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Logan weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dunlap
- Boyer Valley Comm School DistrictSchool district77FTE
- Care Initiatives44
- Quality Liquid Feeds Inc. - DunlapCattle feeds, supplements, concentrates, and premixes, manufacturing26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 70 people in all. 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dunlap’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 Harrison County and the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
Dunlap home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dunlap$201,629
- 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 Dunlap address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dunlap — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.