Pomeroy, Iowa.
Typical home $98,803 (+11.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$274 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,796 +11%
- $89,007$98,803 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,272 +26%
- $78,531$98,803 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.
- Pomeroy$519
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Pomeroy, IA rose 11.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pomeroy, Pocahontas County, Iowa
Pomeroy is a city of 526 people in Pocahontas County. Half its households earn more than $53,542 a year and half less, against $61,875 across Pocahontas County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Pocahontas County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 4.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pocahontas 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pomeroy is a small Iowa city in Pocahontas County, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Households earn less than across the county as a whole, and more residents live below the poverty line than most would expect of a town this size is not something to claim here, so it is enough to say that homes are modestly priced and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while July is warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in farming, and in shops. Across Pocahontas County, some of the largest workplaces are Bobalee Hydraulics, the Pocahontas Area Community School District and Pocahontas Community Hospital. Unemployment in the county is close to where it stood a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and a typical commute is a moderate one, with a small share of people working from home.
Things to do. Twin Lakes State Park West is a park a short drive away. Farther afield, Black Hawk State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Black Hawk Lake is a lake that is also a longer drive away. Several creeks, including Lizard Creek and Lake Creek, run through the surrounding countryside at a longer drive.
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- 238households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Pocahontas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pocahontas County had 2,525 jobs in 2025, 4.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 32 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rockwell City weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pocahontas County
- Bobalee HydraulicsCylinders, fluid power, manufacturing142
- Pocahontas Area Comm School DistrictSchool district109FTE
- Pocahontas Community HospitalCritical access hospital81FTE
- BrandFX, LLC - PocahontasTruck bodies assembling on purchased chassis79
- Care Initiatives60
- PositechCranes, overhead traveling, manufacturing49
- Laurens-Marathon Comm School DistrictSchool district38FTE
- Arlington Place of PocahontasAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 496 people in all across the county; Pomeroy has two 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Pomeroy’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 Pocahontas County.
Pomeroy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pomeroy$98,803
- 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 Pomeroy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pomeroy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.