Parnell, Iowa.
Typical home $325,260 (+5.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$986 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,165 +6%
- $307,094$325,260 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $93,583 +40%
- $231,677$325,260 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.
- Parnell$1,707
- 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 Parnell, IA rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Parnell, Iowa County, Iowa
Parnell is a city of 194 people in Iowa County. Half its households earn more than $70,893 a year and half less, against $71,223 across Iowa County. Unemployment in Iowa County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 7.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Iowa 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Parnell is a very small Iowa town, with few residents and a quiet, rural feel. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a four-year degree is uncommon among adults here. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. Across Iowa County, some of the largest workplaces are Whirlpool - Amana, the Williamsburg Comm School District and Compass Memorial Healthcare. Jobs across the county were fewer last year than the year before, and the typical trip to work is a moderate one, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. Pilot Grove State Preserve, a protected area, is a short drive away and the closest place for time outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art and to Kinnick Stadium, the stadium for big game days. The Skunk River, also a longer drive away, offers another spot to be near the water.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Iowa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iowa County had 8,382 jobs in 2025, 7.3% fewer 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 84° and lows near 63°. About 28 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Williamsburg 1E weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Iowa County
- Whirlpool - AmanaRefrigerator/freezer combinations, household-type, manufacturing2,230
- Don Hummer Trucking Corporation HomesteadGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload301
- Bayer Research and Development ServicesSupport activities for crop production221
- Williamsburg Comm School DistrictSchool district177FTE
- Compass Memorial HealthcareCritical access hospital165FTE
- Presbyterian Homes & Services137
- Iowa Valley Comm School DistrictSchool district73FTE
- English Valleys Comm School DistrictSchool district69FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,227 people in all across the county; Parnell 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Parnell’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 Iowa County.
Parnell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Parnell$325,260
- 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.
Zip codes with a Parnell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Parnell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Parnell
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52316 | North English | 1,597 | — | $182,467 |
| 52325 | Parnell | 477 | — | $311,983 |