Eagle Grove, Iowa.
Typical home $117,031 (+2.4% in a year). Fort Dodge, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$264 (+76%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,722 +2%
- $114,309$117,031 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14,201 +14%
- $102,830$117,031 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.
- Eagle Grove$614
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Eagle Grove, IA rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eagle Grove, Wright County, Iowa
Eagle Grove is a city of 3,601 people in Wright County. Half its households earn more than $63,125 a year and half less, against $67,190 across Wright County; 30% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Wright County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eagle Grove is a small city in Wright County, Iowa, with a young population: the typical resident is younger than in much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a typical home costs well below what it does in many parts of the country. Household incomes run below the county's, and a large share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in professional and business services, and in shops. Among the biggest workplaces in town are the Eagle Grove Community School District, Ag Processing, which presses soybean oil, and a Fareway grocery store. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in most places, and the commute is fairly short, with only a few people working from home. Wright County has seen modest job growth lately, and unemployment there is low and a little lower than a year earlier.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Boone River is a river a longer drive away, and Dolliver Memorial State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away. The Quasdorf Blacksmith and Wagon Shop is a museum, again a longer drive away, for anyone interested in local history.
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- 1,372households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 30%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wright County had 6,325 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 31 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clarion weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Eagle Grove
- Eagle Grove Comm School DistrictSchool district180FTE
- Ag ProcessingSoybean oil mills110
- Fareway Stores, Inc. 551 Eagle GroveGrocery stores69
- Gold-Eagle Cooperative-TransportationGrain hauling, local60
- Phibro Animal Health Corporation - Eagle GroveAntibiotic preparations manufacturing30
- Gold-Eagle Cooperative-EG FeedmillSwine feed, complete, manufacturing25
- B&E ConstructionMillwrights20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 314 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Eagle Grove’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 Wright County and the Fort Dodge, IA metro.
Eagle Grove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eagle Grove$117,031
- Iowa$236,623
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Eagle Grove listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Eagle Grove17.04%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Eagle Grove24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Eagle Grove5
Zip codes with a Eagle Grove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eagle Grove — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.