Hull, Iowa.
Typical home $321,261 (+2.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$899 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,608 +2%
- $314,652$321,261 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,475 +28%
- $251,786$321,261 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.
- Hull$1,686
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Hull, IA rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hull, Sioux County, Iowa
Hull is a city of 2,384 people in Sioux County. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Sioux County was 2.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hull is a small city in Sioux County, Iowa, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Incomes here run a little below the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a town this size. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days and a fair amount of rain across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in the building trades, with others in transport, warehousing and utilities. The largest workplaces in Hull include the Agropur cheese plant, the Boyden-Hull school district and the Fareway grocery store. Commutes are short, and unemployment across Sioux County is low.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Newton Hills State Park and Lake Alvin Recreation Area are protected areas, each a longer drive away. The Blood Run Site, also a longer drive, is an archaeological site, and the Rock River is a river that can be reached the same way.
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- 851households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 14 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sioux County had 23,005 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 35 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sioux Ctr Southeast weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hull
- Hull Facility - AGROPURCheese manufacturing175
- Boyden-Hull Comm School DistrictSchool district95FTE
- Fareway Stores Inc. 247 HullFood stores49
- Lyle's Garage Door ServiceOverhead door, commercial- or industrial-type, installation28
- Aspen Heights Senior LivingAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 278 people in all. 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
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hull’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 Sioux County.
Hull home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hull$321,261
- 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.
- Hull16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Hull address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hull — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.