New Albin, Iowa.
Typical home $249,790 (+8.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$749 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,713 +9%
- $230,077$249,790 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,066 +44%
- $173,724$249,790 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.
- New Albin$1,311
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in New Albin, IA rose 8.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in New Albin, Allamakee County, Iowa
New Albin is a city of 432 people in Allamakee County. Half its households earn more than $61,953 a year and half less, against $70,694 across Allamakee County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 people in Allamakee County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. New Albin is a very small city in the northeast corner of Iowa, in Allamakee County, and its streets are known to those who live there. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values sit at a level many owners of long standing would find familiar. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few people work from home. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in farming, and in manufacturing. Across Allamakee County, the largest workplaces include Veterans Memorial Hospital, the Allamakee Community School District and Reel Core. Unemployment across the county has risen over the past year, and the number of jobs there slipped slightly over the most recent year.
Things to do. Water and open land come first here. Winnebago Creek and Duck Lake are in or beside town, and Fish Farm Mounds State Preserve, an archaeological site, is close too. A short drive away, the Upper Iowa River and Blackhawk Park offer room to paddle, fish or walk, and Effigy Mounds National Monument, an archaeological site, is a longer drive.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Allamakee County 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 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 35 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Genoa Dam weather station, 6 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; New Albin 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 New Albin’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 Allamakee County.
New Albin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- New Albin$249,790
- 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.
- New Albin5
Zip codes with a New Albin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls New Albin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.