Pierson, Iowa.
Typical home $165,197 (+3.0% in a year). Sioux City, IA-NE-SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$370 (+74%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $4,764 +3%
- $160,432$165,197 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.
- Pierson$867
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Pierson, IA rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pierson, Woodbury County, Iowa
Pierson is a city of 337 people in Woodbury County. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Woodbury County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Woodbury 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pierson is a very small city in Woodbury County, Iowa, where most households own the home they live in and fewer people than in most places hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs only a little above freezing and lows well below it, and a good deal of snow falls over the season. Summers turn warm in July, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Woodbury County, some of the largest workplaces are Seaboard Triumph Foods, the Sioux City Comm School District and St. Lukes Regl Medical Center. The commute to work is a fairly long one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Pierson Creek is a river a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Ravine Park, a park, and to the Sioux City Public Museum, a museum. The Big Sioux River, also a longer drive away, is the best known of the nearby waters.
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- 106households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Woodbury County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Woodbury County had 50,924 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 63°. About 35 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Holstein weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Woodbury County
- Seaboard Triumph FoodsPork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants2,953
- Sioux City Comm School DistrictSchool district1,864FTE
- St. Lukes Regl Medical CenterGeneral hospital985FTE
- Mercyone Siouxland Medical CenterGeneral hospital766FTE
- Western Iowa Tech Community CollegeTwo-year college724
- Smithfield Packaged MeatsMeats, cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses636
- Morningside UniversityUniversity or college421
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters417
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 129 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 16,660 people in all across the county; Pierson has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pierson’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 Woodbury County and the Sioux City, IA-NE-SD metro.
Pierson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pierson$165,197
- 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 Pierson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pierson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.