Keswick, Iowa.
Typical home $144,354 (-2.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$190 (+33%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $3,965 -3%
- $148,319$144,354 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.
- Keswick$758
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Keswick, IA fell 2.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Keswick, Keokuk County, Iowa
Keswick is a city of 242 people in Keokuk County. Half its households earn more than $63,750 a year and half less, against $62,329 across Keokuk County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Keokuk County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Keokuk 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Keswick is a very small Iowa town in Keokuk County, where almost everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes sit a little above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural area. A four-year degree is less common among adults here than across the country as a whole. Winters are cold, with January highs that stay close to freezing, while July brings warm summer afternoons, and the year's rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount.
Work. Residents of Keswick work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, farming and the shops. Across Keokuk County, some of the largest workplaces are the Keokuk County Health Center, Keokuk Hills Beef Company and the Sigourney Comm School District. Unemployment in the county is lower now than it was a year ago, though the number of jobs there slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. The Masonic Opera House, a theatre, is a short drive away. For time outdoors, Skunk River and Pilot Grove State Preserve, a protected area, are each a longer drive away. Lake Keomah State Park offers more open country for a day out, also a longer drive away.
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- 21%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
What people in Keokuk County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Keokuk County had 2,280 jobs in 2025, 0.5% 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 63°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sigourney weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Keokuk County
- Keokuk County Health CenterCritical access hospital101FTE
- Keokuk Hills Beef CompanyAbattoirs93
- Sigourney Comm School DistrictSchool district86FTE
- SigourneyFarm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers80
- LegacyHomes for the elderly with nursing care78
- OPCO SigourneyHomes for the elderly with nursing care69
- Keota Comm School DistrictSchool district59FTE
- OPCO KeotaSkilled nursing facilities45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 436 people in all across the county; Keswick has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Strong windVery high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Keswick’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 Keokuk County.
Keswick home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Keswick$144,354
- 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 Keswick address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Keswick — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.