Harris, Iowa.
Typical home $213,756 (+9.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$485 (+76%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $17,771 +9%
- $195,986$213,756 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.
- Harris$1,122
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Harris, IA rose 9.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Harris, Osceola County, Iowa
Harris is a city of 151 people in Osceola County. Half its households earn more than $53,911 a year and half less, against $69,239 across Osceola County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Osceola County was 2.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Osceola 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Harris is a very small city in northwest Iowa, home to far fewer people than most towns and with a population that skews older than the country as a whole. Household incomes run below the county's, and relatively few adults have a four-year degree. Homes here are valued at a level that many buyers from larger metro areas would find modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January highs staying below freezing, while July turns warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and the building trades also well represented. Across Osceola County, some of the largest workplaces are Sonstegrad Foods, an egg producer, the Sibley-Ocheyedan Comm School District, and Osceola Regional Health Center, a critical access hospital. Unemployment in the county is low and has eased slightly over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Iowa Lake and Indian Lake are both a short drive away, and are the closest spots for time by the water. A longer drive leads to West Okoboji Lake, one of the best known lakes in the region, and to Gull Point State Park, a protected area on its shores.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
What people in Osceola County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Osceola County had 2,641 jobs in 2025, 1.3% 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 85° and lows near 63°. About 41 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lake Park weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Osceola County
- Sonstegrad FoodsEgg production, chicken338
- Sibley-Ocheyedan Comm School DistrictSchool district130FTE
- Osceola Regional Health CenterCritical access hospital82FTE
- Care Initiatives55
- Cooperative Farmers ElevatorGrain elevators merchant wholesalers grain53
- POET Bioprocessing - AshtonDenatured alcohol manufacturing44
- Cooperative Energy CompanyConvenience food with gasoline stations43
- Bosma Poultry GroupLivestock trucking, long-distance29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 759 people in all across the county; Harris has none 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
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Harris’ 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 Osceola County.
Harris home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Harris$213,756
- 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 Harris address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Harris — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.