Goodell, Iowa.
Typical home $116,469 (+1.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$341 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,301 +1%
- $115,168$116,469 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,203 +25%
- $93,267$116,469 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.
- Goodell$611
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Goodell, IA rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Goodell, Hancock County, Iowa
Goodell is a city of 140 people in Hancock County. Half its households earn more than $87,813 a year and half less, against $70,601 across Hancock County. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Hancock County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hancock County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Goodell is a very small Iowa city, one of the smallest places a person could choose to live, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and typical home values are modest. Very few adults hold a four-year degree, and almost no one works from home. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing days common, and summers are warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in farming. Across Hancock County, the biggest workplaces include Stellar Industries, which makes and installs truck equipment, Hawkeye Pride Egg Farms, and Hancock County Health System, a critical access hospital. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Clear Lake, a lake a longer drive away, is the best known place nearby and suits a day by the water. Pilot Knob State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away and has room for walking and time outdoors. For something indoors, the MacNider Art Museum is likewise a longer drive away.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Hancock County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hancock County had 5,761 jobs in 2025, 3.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Britt 3E weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hancock County
- Stellar IndustriesManufacturing and installation of truck equipment510
- Hawkeye Pride Egg FarmsChicken egg production319
- VocationalManufacturing plant282
- Hancock County Health SystemCritical access hospital166FTE
- Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Comm School DistrictSchool district118FTE
- Michael FoodsEgg substitutes manufacturing115
- Westview Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities98
- West Hancock Comm School DistrictSchool district89FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,168 people in all across the county; Goodell has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Goodell’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 Hancock County.
Goodell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Goodell$116,469
- 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.
Zip codes with a Goodell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Goodell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.