Fremont, Iowa.
Typical home $175,731 (+9.4% in a year). Oskaloosa, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$552 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,075 +9%
- $160,655$175,731 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,519 +47%
- $119,212$175,731 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.
- Fremont$922
- 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 Fremont, IA rose 9.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fremont, Mahaska County, Iowa
Fremont is a city of 708 people in Mahaska County. Half its households earn more than $78,333 a year and half less, against $70,940 across Mahaska County. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Mahaska County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fremont is a small Iowa city in Mahaska County, home to a young population, with a median age well below what many older homeowners might expect. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold, with snow and a fair amount of rain through the year, while July brings warm days.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in professional and business services. Across Mahaska County, some of the largest workplaces are Mahaska Health Partnership, Clow Valve Company and William Penn University. Unemployment in the county is low and unchanged from a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year. Most people commute a fair distance to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. Lake Keomah State Park is a protected area a short drive away, with water and open ground for a day outdoors. Farther afield, the Airpower Museum and the International Video Game Hall of Fame are both museums a longer drive away, and the Masonic Opera House is a theatre, also a longer drive off.
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- 308households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mahaska County had 8,096 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 24 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ottumwa Industrial Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mahaska County
- Corporate Office585
- Mahaska Health PartnershipCritical access hospital483FTE
- Clow Valve Company - Machine ShopAngle valves, industrial-type, manufacturing395
- William Penn UniversityUniversity or college376
- Oskaloosa Comm School DistrictSchool district307FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters252
- Clow Valve Company - Metal Casting FacilityFoundries, iron161
- Pioneer Hi-Bred InternationalSeed processing, post-harvest for propagation121
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,195 people in all across the county; Fremont has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fremont’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 Mahaska County and the Oskaloosa, IA metro.
Fremont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fremont$175,731
- 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.
- Fremont4
Zip codes with a Fremont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fremont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.