Renwick, Iowa.
Typical home $106,686 (+6.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$228 (+69%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $6,887 +7%
- $99,799$106,686 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.
- Renwick$560
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Renwick, IA rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Renwick, Humboldt County, Iowa
Renwick is a city of 234 people in Humboldt County. Half its households earn more than $52,125 a year and half less, against $71,946 across Humboldt County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Humboldt County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Humboldt 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Renwick is a very small city in Humboldt County, Iowa, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run well below the county's, and homes are modest in price. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying below freezing. Summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Humboldt County, the largest workplaces include the Humboldt Comm School District, Humboldt County Memorial Hospital and Liguria Foods. Jobs across the county shrank a little last year, and unemployment is slightly lower than a year ago. A typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. The closest attractions are all a longer drive away. Ambrose A. Call State Park is a protected area for time outdoors, and Woodman Hollow State Preserve is a park set aside for walking and nature. The Quasdorf Blacksmith and Wagon Shop is a museum, and Indian Creek is a river that runs through the area.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
What people in Humboldt County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Humboldt County had 3,713 jobs in 2025, 2.5% 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 62°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dakota City weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Humboldt County
- Humboldt Comm School DistrictSchool district200FTE
- Humboldt County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital199FTE
- Liguria FoodsSausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses115
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores103
- Precision Pulley & IdlerBelt conveyor systems manufacturing90
- Fareway Stores, Inc. 703 HumboldtGrocery stores79
- Corn Belt Power CooperativeElectric power transmission systems61
- Corteva AgriScienceSeed cleaning61
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 742 people in all across the county; Renwick has one 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Renwick’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 Humboldt County.
Renwick home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Renwick$106,686
- 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 Renwick address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Renwick — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.