Riverton, Iowa.
Typical home $111,888 (+3.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$300 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,196 +4%
- $107,692$111,888 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,324 +24%
- $90,564$111,888 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.
- Riverton$587
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Riverton, IA rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Riverton, Fremont County, Iowa
Riverton is a city of 245 people in Fremont County. Half its households earn more than $48,359 a year and half less, against $71,621 across Fremont County. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Riverton is a very small Iowa city where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and the population skews older than in most places. Household incomes run well below the county's, and homes here are modestly priced. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, and summers turn warm in July, with a fair amount of snow and a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and the building trades also well represented. Across Fremont County, some of the largest workplaces are Conagra Brands, the Sidney Comm School District and Grape Community Hospital in Hamburg. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. The Nishnabotna River and the West Nishnabotna River are both a short drive away, as is Waubonsie State Park, a protected area suited to a day outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Arbor Lodge State Historical Park and Arboretum, a botanical garden.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 20 mintypical commute
- 1%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, 5 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; Riverton 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 Riverton’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.
Riverton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Riverton$111,888
- 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 Riverton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Riverton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.