Richland, Iowa.
Typical home $143,079 (+4.8% in a year). Fairfield, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$341 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,564 +5%
- $136,515$143,079 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,912 +15%
- $124,167$143,079 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.
- Richland$751
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Richland, IA rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Richland, Keokuk County, Iowa
Richland is a city of 542 people in Keokuk County. Half its households earn more than $60,446 a year and half less, against $62,329 across Keokuk County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Keokuk County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Richland is a very small city in Keokuk County, Iowa, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the population is younger than in many small towns. Incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and transport and warehousing also employing a good number. Across Keokuk County, the largest workplaces include Keokuk County Health Center, Keokuk Hills Beef Company and the Sigourney Comm School District. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Skunk River is a river a short drive away, and Lake Darling State Park, also a short drive away, is a protected area for time outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the International Video Game Hall of Fame, a museum, and to the Masonic Opera House, a theatre.
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- 23%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Keokuk County had 2,280 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 22 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fairfield weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Keokuk County
- Keokuk County Health CenterCritical access hospital101FTE
- Keokuk Hills Beef CompanyAbattoirs93
- Sigourney Comm School DistrictSchool district86FTE
- SigourneyFarm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers80
- LegacyHomes for the elderly with nursing care78
- OPCO SigourneyHomes for the elderly with nursing care69
- Keota Comm School DistrictSchool district59FTE
- OPCO KeotaSkilled nursing facilities45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 436 people in all across the county; Richland has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Richland’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 Keokuk County and the Fairfield, IA metro.
Richland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Richland$143,079
- 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 Richland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Richland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.