Henderson, Iowa.
Typical home $173,388 (-4.1% in a year). Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$289 (+47%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $7,393 -4%
- $180,780$173,388 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.
- Henderson$910
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Henderson, IA fell 4.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Henderson, Mills County, Iowa
Henderson is a city of 144 people in Mills County. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Mills County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 6.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mills County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Henderson is a very small city in Mills County, Iowa, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners and a typical home is worth less than in much of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the town is quiet and close-knit. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers turn warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, the building trades and manufacturing. Across Mills County, some of the largest workplaces are the Glenwood Comm School District, Bunge North America and Glen Haven Home. Commutes are long, and very few people work from home, so most drive to jobs outside town. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county had fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. For a day out, Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium and the Joslyn Art Museum are among the best known places nearby, both a longer drive away. Lauritzen Gardens, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive away and suits a slower afternoon. Lake Manawa is another longer drive away for time by the water.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 34 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Mills County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mills County had 3,133 jobs in 2025, 6.8% 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 64°. About 28 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oakland weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mills County
- Glenwood Comm School DistrictSchool district287FTE
- Bunge North AmericaSoybean and other oilseed processing139
- Glen Haven HomeSkilled nursing facilities132
- East Mills Comm School DistrictSchool district91FTE
- Fremont-Mills Comm School DistrictSchool district89FTE
- Leick ConstructionEarth retention system construction45
- Mills County Engineer/Secondary RoadsCounty development agencies34
- AVE PLP423820 farm and garden machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 435 people in all across the county; Henderson 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Henderson’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 Mills County and the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
Henderson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Henderson$173,388
- 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 Henderson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Henderson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.