Sabula, Iowa.
Typical home $214,942 (+5.7% in a year). Clinton, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$619 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,538 +6%
- $203,404$214,942 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,868 +34%
- $160,074$214,942 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.
- Sabula$1,128
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Sabula, IA rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sabula, Jackson County, Iowa
Sabula is a city of 506 people in Jackson County. Unemployment in Jackson County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sabula is a very small city, one of the smallest places most people will ever think of as a town. Few adults here hold a four-year degree compared with the county overall, and fewer people work from home than in many places. Winters are cold, with plenty of snow, and summers turn warm, with moisture spread fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops and farming. Across Jackson County, the largest workplaces include the Maquoketa Comm School District, Walmart and Jackson County Public Hospital. The county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier, and unemployment there is close to where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. The Plum River runs in or beside town. A short drive away are the Apple River and Mississippi Palisades State Park, a protected area for walking and looking out over the Mississippi. Farther afield, Bellevue State Park is another protected area, a longer drive away.
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- 250households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 5,754 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 60°. About 33 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Carroll weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Family Dollar, LLC DC206General warehousing and storage237
- Maquoketa Comm School DistrictSchool district223FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters194
- HUSCO International MaquoketaValves, hydraulic and pneumatic, fluid power, manufacturing117
- Jackson County Public HospitalCritical access hospital109FTE
- Bellevue Comm School DistrictSchool district96FTE
- Plastics UnlimitedAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing90
- Imagine the PossibilitiesJob training, vocational rehabilitation or habilitation88
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,459 people in all across the county; Sabula 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
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sabula’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 Jackson County and the Clinton, IA metro.
Sabula home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sabula$214,942
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Sabula address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sabula — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.