Randolph, Iowa.
Typical home $180,455 (+11.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$496 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,154 +11%
- $162,301$180,455 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,147 +31%
- $137,308$180,455 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.
- Randolph$947
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Randolph, IA rose 11.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Randolph, Fremont County, Iowa
Randolph is a city of 189 people in Fremont County. Unemployment in Fremont County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fremont 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Randolph is a very small farm town in Fremont County, Iowa, where neighbors know one another and the pace is quiet. Homes here cost less than the typical home across much of the country, and household incomes in the county run a little below the national picture. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and frequent freezing days, while summers turn properly warm by July. Rain and melted snow arrive in moderate amounts through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and the building trades also well represented. Across Fremont County, the largest workplaces include Conagra Brands, the Sidney Comm School District and Grape Community Hospital in Hamburg. Only a small number of people work from home, and the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than the year before, though unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Walnut Creek is a river a short drive away, a simple place to walk the bank or fish. Farther afield, Waubonsie State Park is a protected area with trails and wooded hills, and Lake Manawa offers a lake for boating and a day by the water. Both of these are a longer drive away, so they suit a full day out.
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- 7%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Fremont County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fremont County had 2,168 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 21 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sidney 1SSE weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fremont County
- Conagra BrandsAll other miscellaneous food manufacturing100
- Sidney Comm School DistrictSchool district83FTE
- Grape Community Hospital - HamburgCritical access hospital79FTE
- Manildra MillingStarches manufacturing77
- Sapp Bros.,IncGasoline stations with convenience stores75
- Green Plains ShenandoahManufacturer of fuel ethanol74
- The Ambassador SidneyNursing homes55
- Hamburg Comm School DistrictSchool district43FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 461 people in all across the county; Randolph 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Randolph’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 Fremont County.
Randolph home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Randolph$180,455
- 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 Randolph address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Randolph — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.