Odebolt, Iowa.
Typical home $154,622 (+13.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$369 (+83%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $18,326 +13%
- $136,296$154,622 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.
- Odebolt$812
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Odebolt, IA rose 13.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Odebolt, Sac County, Iowa
Odebolt is a city of 994 people in Sac County. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Sac County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Odebolt is a very small city in Sac County, Iowa, where almost everyone lives in a home they own. Poverty is low and household incomes in the county run fairly comfortable, while a typical home is priced modestly. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying below freezing, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and other services close behind. Across Sac County, the largest workplaces include the East Sac County Comm School District, Loring Hospital and Park View Rehabilitation Center. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and unemployment in the county has stayed low, though the county has lost a small number of jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Soldier River is a short drive away and is the closest place to get out on the water. A longer drive brings you to Black Hawk State Park, a protected area, and to Black Hawk Lake, which suits an afternoon by the water. The Living Heritage Tree Museum, also a longer drive away, offers an indoor outing.
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- 413households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sac County had 2,954 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ida Grove 5NW weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sac County
- East Sac County Comm School DistrictSchool district119FTE
- Loring HospitalCritical access hospital99FTE
- Park View Rehabilitation CenterNursing homes82
- VTI of IowaCountertops, wood, manufacturing64
- Schaller-Crestland Comm School DistrictSchool district57FTE
- Nutrien Ag SolutionsFarm supplies merchant wholesalers49
- Care Initiatives41
- City of Lake ViewCity and town councils32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 434 people in all across the county; Odebolt 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
- HailVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Odebolt’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 Sac County.
Odebolt home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Odebolt$154,622
- 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.
- Odebolt8
Zip codes with a Odebolt address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Odebolt — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.