Lytton, Iowa.
Typical home $137,541 (+10.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$265 (+58%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $13,062 +10%
- $124,478$137,541 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.
- Lytton$722
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Lytton, IA rose 10.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lytton, Calhoun County, Iowa
Lytton is a city of 282 people in Calhoun County. Unemployment in Calhoun County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Calhoun 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lytton is a very small Iowa city in Calhoun County, with few residents and a quiet, rural setting. Few adults here hold a four-year degree compared with much of the country. Winters are cold, with January highs and lows well below freezing and a good deal of snow, while July turns warm. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and farming also providing a share of local jobs. Across Calhoun County, some of the largest workplaces are Opportunity Living, the South Central Calhoun Comm School District and Stewart Memorial Hospital. Unemployment in the county has held steady compared with a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Commutes are long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Black Hawk State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Black Hawk Lake is a lake in the same direction. Twin Lakes State Park West is another park a longer drive away. Each makes a trip for a day of walking or time by the water.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Calhoun County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calhoun County had 2,741 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 31 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sac City weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Calhoun County
- Opportunity LivingIntellectual and developmental disability intermediate care facilities200
- South Central Calhoun Comm School DistrictSchool district169FTE
- Stewart Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital157FTE
- Manson Northwest Webster Comm School DistrictSchool district152FTE
- Essentia - LyttonBroth canning110
- Iowa Department of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions98
- NEW Cooperative, Inc. - PomeroyFarm supplies merchant wholesalers45
- Fareway Stores, Inc. 222 Rockwell CityFood stores42
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 627 people in all across the county; Lytton has none 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Lytton’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 Calhoun County.
Lytton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lytton$137,541
- 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 Lytton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lytton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.