Epworth, Iowa.
Typical home $271,735 (+3.4% in a year). Dubuque, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$758 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,925 +3%
- $262,810$271,735 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,624 +29%
- $210,111$271,735 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.
- Epworth$1,426
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Epworth, IA rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Epworth, Dubuque County, Iowa
Epworth is a city of 2,023 people in Dubuque County. Half its households earn more than $84,271 a year and half less, against $77,630 across Dubuque County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Dubuque County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Epworth is a small city in Dubuque County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. The population is younger than in much of the country, and household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole, with fewer people living in poverty than in many places. 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. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and shops. Across Dubuque County, some of the largest workplaces are John Deere Dubuque Works, the Dubuque Community School District and MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center. Many people have a four-year degree, a typical commute is short, and a good number work from home.
Things to do. The National Farm Toy Museum is a short drive away and is the closest of the nearby places. A longer drive brings you to the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium, and to Eagle Point Park, a park in the Dubuque area. Those who like green space can also visit the Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, a longer drive away.
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- 669households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dubuque County had 57,730 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 31 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cascade weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dubuque County
- John Deere Dubuque WorksConstruction machinery manufacturing2,700
- Dubuque Comm School DistrictSchool district1,700FTE
- Mercyone Dubuque Medical CenterGeneral hospital913FTE
- Andersen Windows and Doors - DubuqueScreens, door and window, metal frame, manufacturing843
- Western Dubuque Comm School DistrictSchool district521FTE
- University of DubuqueUniversity or college514
- THE Finley HospitalGeneral hospital508FTE
- AY Mcdonald ManufacturingManufacturer of water, gas, pump & plumbing505
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 159 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,376 people in all across the county; Epworth has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Epworth’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Dubuque County and the Dubuque, IA metro.
Epworth home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Epworth$271,735
- 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.
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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Epworth address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Epworth — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.