Klemme, Iowa.
Typical home $110,329 (-0.2% in a year). Mason City, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$371 (+178%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $260 -0%
- $110,588$110,329 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,600 +46%
- $75,729$110,329 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.
- Klemme$579
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Klemme, IA fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Klemme, Hancock County, Iowa
Klemme is a city of 441 people in Hancock County. Half its households earn more than $59,256 a year and half less, against $70,601 across Hancock County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Hancock County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hancock 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Klemme is a very small Iowa city, and almost everyone who lives there owns their home. Typical home values are modest, household incomes sit below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while July is warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and farming and forestry also providing many jobs. Across Hancock County, the largest workplaces include Stellar Industries, which makes and installs truck equipment, Hawkeye Pride Egg Farms, and Hancock County Health System. The commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home. Unemployment across the county is low, though there are fewer jobs there than a year earlier.
Things to do. The best known spot nearby is Clear Lake, a lake a longer drive away, and Pilot Knob State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive. For something indoors, the Quasdorf Blacksmith and Wagon Shop is a museum, also a longer drive from town. McIntosh Woods State Park, a lakeside park, rounds out the options for a day outdoors.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Hancock County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hancock County had 5,761 jobs in 2025, 3.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Britt 3E weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hancock County
- Stellar IndustriesManufacturing and installation of truck equipment510
- Hawkeye Pride Egg FarmsChicken egg production319
- VocationalManufacturing plant282
- Hancock County Health SystemCritical access hospital166FTE
- Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Comm School DistrictSchool district118FTE
- Michael FoodsEgg substitutes manufacturing115
- Westview Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities98
- West Hancock Comm School DistrictSchool district89FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,168 people in all across the county; Klemme 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Klemme’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 Hancock County and the Mason City, IA metro.
Klemme home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Klemme$110,329
- 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 Klemme address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Klemme — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.