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Farley, Iowa.

Typical home $314,934 (+4.5% in a year). Dubuque, IA metro.

What it costs per month · Farley $1,653/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$891 (+117%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $13,630 +5%
$301,304$314,934 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $74,072 +31%
$240,862$314,934 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Farley $1,653 Iowa $1,242 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Farley$1,653
  • 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 Farley, IA rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Living in Farley, Dubuque County, Iowa

Farley is a city of 1,766 people in Dubuque County. Half its households earn more than $97,143 a year and half less, against $77,630 across Dubuque County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% 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.

People 1,766 in the 2020 census; median age 34.3
Household income $97,143 the median, give or take $10,709 · Dubuque County: $77,630
Unemployment 3.5% Dubuque County, August 2026; 3.6% a year before
Homes 74% lived in by their owners; 26% rented

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Farley is a small city in Dubuque County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the share who own is higher than in many towns. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. The population is on the younger side, and winters are cold and snowy, with a warm July.

Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in the building trades and in shops. The largest workplaces in Farley include the Western Dubuque Comm School District, Behnke Enterprises, which builds truck trailers, and Simon's Trucking. Commutes are fairly short, and few people work from home.

Things to do. The National Farm Toy Museum is a short drive away and is the closest of the nearby sights. A longer drive brings you to the Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, and to the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium. Eagle Point Park, also a longer drive away, is a place for an outing outdoors.

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  • 690households
  • 24%of adults have a degree
  • 4%below the poverty line
  • 23 mintypical commute
  • 7%work from home

What residents work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care33%
  • Manufacturing18%
  • Building trades11%
  • Shops (retail)11%
  • Banks, insurance and property8%
  • Professional and business services5%

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

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 27° and 11°; warmest in July, 83° and 63° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 27° 11° F M A M J J 83° 63° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 27° and 11°; warmest in July, 83° and 63° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 27° 11° F M A M J J 83° 63° A S O N D

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, 10 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Farley

  1. Western Dubuque Comm School DistrictSchool district521FTE
  2. Behnke EnterprisesTruck trailer manufacturing178
  3. Simon's TruckingGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload142
  4. East Iowa Machine Company (EIMCo)Machine shops140
  5. Top Grade ExcavatingConstruction management, water and sewer line36

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 496 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

  1. HailRelatively high
  2. Strong windRelatively high
  3. TornadoesRelatively high
  4. Cold wavesRelatively high
  5. Winter weatherRelatively high
  6. DroughtRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Farley’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.

Farley home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Farley $314,934 Iowa $236,623 United States $366,157
$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Farley$314,934
  • Iowa$236,623
  • United States$366,157
Property tax, 2026 roll $2,856/yr median bill inside Farley, effective 1.08% of estimated value — current assessment rolls, AssessorSearch Data Lab, quality-gated against the county's official figures

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.

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Zip codes with a Farley address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Farley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zip codes in Farley

Zip Place Population Rent Home value
52046 Farley 3,129 — $312,697
52045 Epworth 2,777 — $326,525