Mingo, Iowa.
Typical home $316,266 (+7.2% in a year). Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$877 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,274 +7%
- $294,992$316,266 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,629 +35%
- $234,637$316,266 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.
- Mingo$1,660
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Mingo, IA rose 7.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mingo, Jasper County, Iowa
Mingo is a city of 302 people in Jasper County. Unemployment in Jasper County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jasper 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mingo is a very small Iowa city, one of the smaller towns in Jasper County, where people tend to know their neighbors. Few adults here hold a four-year degree compared with the country as a whole, and few households live below the poverty line. Typical home values sit well above what the town's size might suggest. Winters are cold, with January highs staying below freezing and nights colder still, and a good deal of snow falls over the season. Summers are warm in July, and rain and melted snow come steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Across Jasper County, the largest workplaces include the Newton Comm School District, TPI Composites, which makes wind turbines, and Van Maanen Electric, an electrical contractor. The commute for most working residents is a long one, and only a small share of people work from home. Unemployment across the county is close to where it stood a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Most outings from Mingo mean a longer drive. Adventureland is an amusement park, and Iowa Speedway is a race track. The Des Moines Art Center is a museum, and the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area where people go to see prairie and wildlife. All of these are a longer drive away.
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- 19%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Jasper County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jasper County had 10,688 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 29 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newton weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jasper County
- Newton Comm School DistrictSchool district413FTE
- TPI CompositesWind turbines manufacturing300
- Van Maanen ElectricElectrical contractors282
- Co-Line WeldingMachine shops255
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters236
- City of Newton IowaExecutive offices, federal, state, and local199
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores186
- PCM Comm School DistrictSchool district164FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,516 people in all across the county; Mingo has one of its own. School districts come 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mingo’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 Jasper County and the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro.
Mingo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mingo$316,266
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Mingo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mingo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.