Pacific Junction, Iowa.
Typical home $229,158 (-3.6% in a year). Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$321 (+36%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $8,566 -4%
- $237,724$229,158 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.
- Pacific Junction$1,203
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Pacific Junction, IA fell 3.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pacific Junction, Mills County, Iowa
Pacific Junction is a city of 96 people in Mills County. Unemployment in Mills County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 6.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mills County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pacific Junction is a very small city in Mills County, in the southwest corner of Iowa, on the Missouri River across from Omaha, Nebraska. Its homes are valued below the county's typical value, and household incomes here are lower than across the county as a whole. Winters are colder than in most of the country, summers are hot, and the town gets plenty of snow and rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, or in manufacturing. Mills County had fewer jobs in the most recent year than the year before, though unemployment has eased since last summer. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and not many people work from home.
Things to do. Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, a zoo a longer drive away, is one of the best known places nearby. Joslyn Art Museum, also a longer drive away, is an art museum in Omaha. Pony Creek Park, a short drive away, is a protected area for walking and quiet time outdoors.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 32 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Mills County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mills County had 3,133 jobs in 2025, 6.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 24 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Glenwood 3SW weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mills County
- Glenwood Comm School DistrictSchool district287FTE
- Bunge North AmericaSoybean and other oilseed processing139
- Glen Haven HomeSkilled nursing facilities132
- East Mills Comm School DistrictSchool district91FTE
- Fremont-Mills Comm School DistrictSchool district89FTE
- Leick ConstructionEarth retention system construction45
- Mills County Engineer/Secondary RoadsCounty development agencies34
- AVE PLP423820 farm and garden machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 435 people in all across the county; Pacific Junction has none 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pacific Junction’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 Mills County and the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
Pacific Junction home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pacific Junction$229,158
- 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 Pacific Junction address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pacific Junction — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.