Newton, Iowa.
Typical home $202,780 (+3.1% in a year), asking rent $947 . Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$578 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,043 +3%
- $196,738$202,780 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,532 +29%
- $157,248$202,780 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.
- Newton$1,064
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Newton, IA rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newton, Jasper County, Iowa
Newton is a city of 15,760 people in Jasper County. Half its households earn more than $57,771 a year and half less, against $71,311 across Jasper County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. 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 residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newton is a small city in Jasper County, Iowa, with a median age a little older than much of the country. More homes here are lived in by their owners than rented, and incomes run below the county's as a whole. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops. Among the larger workplaces in Newton are TPI Composites, which makes wind turbines, the Newton Comm School District, and Walmart. The typical commute is short, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Iowa Speedway, a race track, sits in or beside town, as does the Newton Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, a good place for a quiet walk. A short drive away is the Conard Environmental Research Area, a protected natural area. For a longer outing, Adventureland, an amusement park, is a longer drive.
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- 6,772households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents 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, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newton
- Newton Comm School DistrictSchool district413FTE
- TPI CompositesWind turbines manufacturing300
- Van Maanen ElectricElectrical contractors282
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters236
- City of Newton IowaExecutive offices, federal, state, and local199
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores186
- Graphic Packaging InternationalPaper and paperboard158
- Mercyone - Newton Medical CenterGeneral hospital154FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 27 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,818 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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.
Newton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newton$202,780
- Iowa$236,623
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Newton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 45 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Newton30.39%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Newton45
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Newton124
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Newton30
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Newton$180,015
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Newton97.82%
Zip codes with a Newton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.