Hinton, Iowa.
Typical home $393,262 (+8.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,174 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $32,133 +9%
- $361,129$393,262 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $110,606 +39%
- $282,656$393,262 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.
- Hinton$2,064
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Hinton, IA rose 8.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hinton, Plymouth County, Iowa
Hinton is a city of 935 people in Plymouth County. Half its households earn more than $114,531 a year and half less, against $83,251 across Plymouth County; 1% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Plymouth County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hinton is a small Iowa city in Plymouth County, and most homes there are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run well above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while summers turn properly warm by July. Rain and melted snow fall across the year at a moderate rate.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Plymouth County, the largest workplaces include Wells Enterprises, Heyl Truck Lines and the Le Mars Community School District. The county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before, and unemployment there is low, close to where it stood a year earlier. Most adults do not hold a four-year degree, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Stone State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is the Sioux City Public Museum. For a longer outing, the Orpheum Theatre and the Sioux City Art Center are both a longer drive away. The Big Sioux River, one of the better-known waterways in the area, is also a longer drive away.
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- 361households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Plymouth County had 11,642 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 31 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Le Mars weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Plymouth County
- Wells EnterprisesIce cream manufacturing1,376
- Heyl Truck LinesGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload522
- Wells EnterpriseCorporate offices405
- Wells EnterprisesRefrigerated warehousing355
- Wells EnterprisesIce cream manufacturing329
- Le Mars Comm School DistrictSchool district294FTE
- Floyd Valley HealthcareCritical access hospital273FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters238
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,682 people in all across the county; Hinton has two 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
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hinton’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 Plymouth County.
Hinton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hinton$393,262
- Iowa$236,623
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hinton8
Zip codes with a Hinton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hinton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.