Persia, Iowa.
Typical home $256,760 (+3.1% in a year). Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$735 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,673 +3%
- $249,086$256,760 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,182 +36%
- $188,577$256,760 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.
- Persia$1,348
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Persia, IA rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Persia, Harrison County, Iowa
Persia is a city of 297 people in Harrison County. Unemployment in Harrison County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Harrison 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Persia is a very small city in Harrison County, Iowa, so most everyday errands and gatherings happen on a scale where neighbors tend to know one another. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers turn properly warm. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and typical home values are modest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Harrison County, some of the largest workplaces are Woodbine Manufacturing, the Missouri Valley Comm School District and CHI Health - Missouri Valley. The county has been adding jobs, unemployment is low, and household incomes in the county are fairly comfortable. A typical commute is a fairly short drive, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, the Joslyn Art Museum is the best known stop, a museum a longer drive away. Nature lovers can head to the Boyer River, also a longer drive away. The USS Hazard, another museum a longer drive away, rounds out the closest trio, and Fort Atkinson is a historic fort in the same longer-drive range.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Harrison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harrison County had 4,087 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 29 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Logan weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Harrison County
- Woodbine ManufacturingDollies manufacturing176
- Missouri Valley Comm School DistrictSchool district123FTE
- Logan-Magnolia Comm School DistrictSchool district107FTE
- CHI Health - Missouri ValleyCritical access hospital99FTE
- Woodbine Comm School DistrictSchool district91FTE
- Boyer Valley Comm School DistrictSchool district77FTE
- Azria Heatlh Rose VistaNursing homes67
- Carry-On Missouri ValleyTruck trailer manufacturing59
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 644 people in all across the county; Persia 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- 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 Persia’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 Harrison County and the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
Persia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Persia$256,760
- 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 Persia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Persia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.