Keota, Iowa.
Typical home $171,931 (+8.6% in a year). Iowa City, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$486 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,669 +9%
- $158,262$171,931 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,826 +31%
- $131,104$171,931 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.
- Keota$902
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Keota, IA rose 8.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Keota, Washington County, Iowa
Keota is a city of 897 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $64,188 a year and half less, against $75,647 across Washington County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Keota is a small city in Washington County, Iowa, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Typical home values are modest, and household incomes run below the county's. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm days. Rain and melted snow through the year keep the surrounding farm country green.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in manufacturing. Across Washington County, the largest workplaces include the Washington Community School District, Washington County Hospital and CIVCO Medical Solutions. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, which fits a town where many jobs are in other parts of the county.
Things to do. The Skunk River is a short drive away and is the nearest spot for time along the water. A longer drive brings you to Lake Darling State Park, a protected area for walking and being outdoors. Farther off, in the same longer-drive range, the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art offers a day among paintings and sculpture.
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- 383households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 8,780 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more 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 63°. About 25 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Washington weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Washington Comm School DistrictSchool district283FTE
- Washington County HospitalCritical access hospital239FTE
- Mid-Prairie Comm School DistrictSchool district226FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters170
- Farmers Coop AssociationFertilizer application for crops168
- CIVCO Medical Solutions - ManufacturingInstruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing105
- Highland Comm School DistrictSchool district87FTE
- Iowa Bridge & Culvert, LCHighway construction83
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,329 people in all across the county; Keota 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
- Strong windVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Keota’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 Washington County and the Iowa City, IA metro.
Keota home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Keota$171,931
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Keota9
Zip codes with a Keota address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Keota — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.