Harvey, Iowa.
Typical home $175,122 (-0.8% in a year). Pella, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$305 (+50%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,425 -1%
- $176,547$175,122 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $16,493 -9%
- $191,615$175,122 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.
- Harvey$919
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Harvey, IA fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Harvey, Marion County, Iowa
Harvey is a city of 236 people in Marion County. Half its households earn more than $52,250 a year and half less, against $78,680 across Marion County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Marion County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marion 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Harvey is a very small city in Marion County, Iowa, with few residents and a quiet, close-knit scale. Household incomes in town run well below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. People who live in Harvey work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Marion County, some of the largest workplaces are Vermeer Corporation - Pella, Pella Regional Health Center and Central College. A typical commute is a moderate one, and very few residents work from home.
Things to do. Racing fans have Knoxville Raceway, a race track a short drive away, and the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum, also a short drive away. For time outdoors, Lake Red Rock is a reservoir a short drive away, and Elk Rock State Park is a protected area just as close. The Pella Opera House, a theatre a short drive away, offers an evening indoors.
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- 9%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Marion County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marion County had 19,508 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 66°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Knoxville weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marion County
- Vermeer Corporation - PellaConstruction machinery manufacturing3,350
- PellaSash, door and window, wood and covered wood, manufacturing3,017
- WeilerConstruction machinery manufacturing755
- 3M Company571
- Pella Regional Health CenterCritical access hospital560FTE
- Central CollegeUniversity or college488
- Pella Comm School DistrictSchool district385FTE
- Precision Pulley & IdlerBelt conveyor systems manufacturing282
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,956 people in all across the county; Harvey 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Harvey’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 Marion County and the Pella, IA metro.
Harvey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Harvey$175,122
- 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 Harvey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Harvey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.