Pulaski, Iowa.
Typical home $137,918 (-0.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$280 (+63%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $483 -0%
- $138,401$137,918 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.
- Pulaski$724
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Pulaski, IA fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pulaski, Davis County, Iowa
Pulaski is a city of 264 people in Davis County. Half its households earn more than $73,438 a year and half less, against $77,194 across Davis County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Davis County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 5.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Davis 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pulaski is a very small Iowa city in Davis County, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Incomes run a little below the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Winters are cold, with snow through the season, and summers turn warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and farming also well represented. Across Davis County, the largest workplaces include the Davis County Comm School District, Davis County Hospital and Legacy, which provides homes for the elderly with nursing care. Few people work from home, so most head out to a job, and the typical commute is an ordinary one.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor choices are a longer drive away, among them Lacey-Keosauqua State Park, a protected area, and Lake Wapello State Park, another. For something indoors, the Airpower Museum is a museum, also a longer drive away. Billups Branch, a river, is another of the better-known places nearby.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Davis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Davis County had 1,981 jobs in 2025, 5.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 24 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bloomfield weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Davis County
- Davis County Comm School DistrictSchool district186FTE
- Davis County HospitalCritical access hospital140FTE
- LegacyHomes for the elderly with nursing care66
- Southern Iowa Electric CooperativeElectric power distribution systems27
- BloomfieldMail and parcel delivery26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 310 people in all across the county; Pulaski 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
- DroughtVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- LightningVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pulaski’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Davis County.
Pulaski home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pulaski$137,918
- 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 Pulaski address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pulaski — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.