Exira, Iowa.
Typical home $144,162 (+9.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$414 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,653 +10%
- $131,509$144,162 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,445 +36%
- $105,717$144,162 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.
- Exira$757
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Exira, IA rose 9.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Exira, Audubon County, Iowa
Exira is a city of 787 people in Audubon County. Half its households earn more than $47,344 a year and half less, against $58,229 across Audubon County; 23% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Audubon County was 2.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Exira is a small city in Audubon County, Iowa, where almost everyone owns the home they live in. Incomes here run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect to find in a place this size. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in the building trades. Across Audubon County, some of the largest workplaces are the Audubon Comm School District, Exira Care Center and Audubon County Memorial Hospital. The typical trip to work is short, and unemployment in the county is low, though the county has lost a few jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Museum of Danish America is the closest of the nearby places, a short drive away, and it tells the story of Danish immigrants in America. A longer drive brings you to Lake Anita State Park, a protected area with a lake, and to Prairie Rose State Park, another park good for a day outdoors. The Iowa Aviation Museum, also a longer drive away, is a museum for anyone curious about flight.
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- 341households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Audubon County had 1,797 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Audubon weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Audubon County
- Audubon Comm School DistrictSchool district88FTE
- Exira Care Center80
- Audubon County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital71FTE
- AmvcHog and pig farming69
- Friendship HomeNursing homes54
- Global Precision PartsTubing, mechanical and hypodermic sizes, cold-drawn stainless steel, made from purchased steel43
- AMVC Management ServicesOther animal food manufacturing29
- AMVC Management ServicesHog and pig farming26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 444 people in all across the county; Exira has one 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
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Exira’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 Audubon County.
Exira home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Exira$144,162
- 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.
- Exira6
Zip codes with a Exira address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Exira — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.