Rowan, Iowa.
Typical home $68,150 (+1.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$55 (+18%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $1,292 +2%
- $66,859$68,150 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.
- Rowan$358
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Rowan, IA rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rowan, Wright County, Iowa
Rowan is a city of 123 people in Wright County. Half its households earn more than $56,875 a year and half less, against $67,190 across Wright County. Unemployment in Wright County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wright 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rowan is a very small city in Wright County, Iowa, with only a few score residents. Household incomes here run below the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Very few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July. Snow falls through the winter, and a fair amount of rain and melted snow comes over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and the building trades also well represented. Across Wright County, the largest workplaces include Hagie Manufacturing, which makes farm sprayers, Iowa Specialty Hospital - Clarion, and the Eagle Grove Comm School District. Unemployment in the county is low and slightly lower than a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs than it had the year before.
Things to do. The Quasdorf Blacksmith and Wagon Shop, a museum, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Clear Lake, a lake, and to Beeds Lake State Park, a protected area for walking and time outdoors.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
What people in Wright County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wright County had 6,325 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 31 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clarion weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wright County
- Eagle Grove Co-opAnimal fats produced in slaughtering plants925
- Hagie ManufacturingSprayers and dusters, farm-type, manufacturing268
- Iowa Specialty Hospital - ClarionCritical access hospital257FTE
- Eagle Grove Comm School DistrictSchool district180FTE
- Iowa Specialty Hospital - BelmondCritical access hospital180FTE
- Clarion-Goldfield-Dows Comm School DistrictSchool district155FTE
- 29 Presage IowaPork processing plant143
- Centrum Valley FarmsChicken egg production134
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,392 people in all across the county; Rowan has none 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
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rowan’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 Wright County.
Rowan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rowan$68,150
- 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 Rowan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rowan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.