Gravity, Iowa.
Typical home $103,683 (+17.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$253 (+87%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $15,197 +17%
- $88,486$103,683 since Sep 2025
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.
- Gravity$544
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Gravity, IA rose 17.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gravity, Taylor County, Iowa
Gravity is a city of 154 people in Taylor County. Half its households earn more than $54,500 a year and half less, against $67,740 across Taylor County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Taylor County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Taylor 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gravity is a very small city in Taylor County, in the farm country of southwest Iowa. Incomes here run below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. Homes are modestly priced, and very few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and farming close behind. Across Taylor County, some of the largest workplaces are Papetti's of Iowa, an egg processor, Precision Pulley & Idler, which makes belt conveyor systems, and Bedford Comm School District. Unemployment in the county is low and has stayed steady over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up. Most people drive a fair way to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. Lake of Three Fires State Park is a short drive away and is the nearest place for time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to the Nodaway River, and Green Valley State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive off. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 58households
- 4%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Taylor County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Taylor County had 2,060 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bedford weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Taylor County
- Papetti's of IowaEggs, processed, manufacturing368
- Precision Pulley & IdlerBelt conveyor systems manufacturing124
- Gethmann Construction CoFoundation, building, poured concrete, contractors91
- Bedford Comm School DistrictSchool district87FTE
- Lenox Comm School DistrictSchool district81FTE
- Care Initiatives55
- Lenox Care CenterNursing homes55
- Dalton Ag EnterprisesHarvesting machinery and equipment, agriculture, manufacturing43
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 817 people in all across the county; Gravity has none of its own. 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Gravity’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 Taylor County.
Gravity home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gravity$103,683
- 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 Gravity address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gravity — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.