Lansing, Iowa.
Typical home $282,670 (+6.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$796 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,391 +7%
- $265,279$282,670 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,413 +38%
- $205,257$282,670 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.
- Lansing$1,484
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Lansing, IA rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lansing, Allamakee County, Iowa
Lansing is a city of 968 people in Allamakee County. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Allamakee County was 5.7% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lansing is a small river city in northeastern Iowa, with a population small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and fewer people live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and a good deal of snow falls each year. Summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, the building trades and government. Across Allamakee County, Veterans Memorial Hospital, the Allamakee Community School District and Reel Core are among the largest workplaces. The typical commute is a moderate one, and very few people work from home. Unemployment in the county is higher than it was a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Village Creek and Big Lake are in or beside town, so water is close at hand. The Upper Iowa River is a short drive away, a good spot for a day by the river. Effigy Mounds National Monument, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away.
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- 458households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allamakee County had 4,802 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 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 63°. About 36 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lynxville Dam weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Allamakee County
- Veterans Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital178FTE
- Allamakee Comm School DistrictSchool district166FTE
- Postville Comm School DistrictSchool district121FTE
- Waukon Feed RanchFarm management services116
- Reel CoreReels, plastics, manufacturing93
- Northgate Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities89
- Fareway Stores, Inc. 062 WaukonGrocery stores70
- Eastern Allamakee Comm School DistrictSchool district68FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 784 people in all across the county; Lansing 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
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lansing’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 Allamakee County.
Lansing home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lansing$282,670
- 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.
- Lansing10
Zip codes with a Lansing address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lansing — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.