Redfield, Iowa.
Typical home $229,124 (+1.6% in a year). Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$583 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,568 +2%
- $225,556$229,124 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,277 +22%
- $187,847$229,124 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.
- Redfield$1,203
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Redfield, IA rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Redfield, Dallas County, Iowa
Redfield is a city of 731 people in Dallas County. Half its households earn more than $66,094 a year and half less, against $102,379 across Dallas County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Dallas County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Redfield is a very small city in Dallas County, Iowa, where almost everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run well below the county's, and the town has fewer residents with a four-year degree than you might expect in a place so close to the Des Moines area. Typical home values sit in a modest range for the region.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in banks, insurance and property, in manufacturing, and in schools, hospitals and social care. Across Dallas County, some of the largest workplaces are Wright Tree Service, the Waukee Comm School District and Hy-Vee. The commute to work is a long one, and a good number of people work from home instead; unemployment in the county is steady compared with a year ago.
Things to do. The nearest outing is Kuehn Conservation Area, a protected area a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Des Moines Art Center, a museum, and to Winterset City Park, a garden. Winters here are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers are warm, so the outdoor places are best saved for the warmer months.
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- 303households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dallas County had 56,432 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Guthrie Ctr weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dallas County
- Wright Tree ServiceTree and brush trimming, overhead utility line4,194
- Waukee Comm School DistrictSchool district1,788FTE
- Hy-VeeCorporate, subsidiary, and regional managing offices1,062
- ITA GroupGeneral management consulting services860
- Wright ServiceLandscaping services660
- Methodist West HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical502
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores498
- Dallas Center-Grimes Comm School DistrictSchool district490FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 82 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,801 people in all across the county; Redfield has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Redfield’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 Dallas County and the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro.
Redfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Redfield$229,124
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Redfield11
Zip codes with a Redfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Redfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.