Schaller, Iowa.
Typical home $158,510 (+12.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$489 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,192 +12%
- $141,318$158,510 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,231 +44%
- $110,279$158,510 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.
- Schaller$832
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Schaller, IA rose 12.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Schaller, Sac County, Iowa
Schaller is a city of 729 people in Sac County. Half its households earn more than $66,510 a year and half less, against $73,838 across Sac County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Sac County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sac 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Schaller is a very small city in Sac County, Iowa, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run below the county's, and the typical home is modestly priced. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and moisture through the year comes as both rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and farming also employing a good number. Almost no one works from home, and few adults have a four-year degree. Across Sac County, the largest workplaces include the East Sac County Comm School District, Loring Hospital and VTI of Iowa.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Black Hawk State Park is a protected area and Black Hawk Lake is a lake, both a longer drive away. The Living Heritage Tree Museum, also a longer drive away, is the best known of the nearby places and is a good choice for a quieter afternoon.
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- 319households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 1%work from home
What people in Sac County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sac County had 2,954 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 64°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Storm Lake weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sac County
- East Sac County Comm School DistrictSchool district119FTE
- Loring HospitalCritical access hospital99FTE
- Park View Rehabilitation CenterNursing homes82
- VTI of IowaCountertops, wood, manufacturing64
- Schaller-Crestland Comm School DistrictSchool district57FTE
- Nutrien Ag SolutionsFarm supplies merchant wholesalers49
- Care Initiatives41
- City of Lake ViewCity and town councils32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 434 people in all across the county; Schaller 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
- HailVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Schaller’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 Sac County.
Schaller home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Schaller$158,510
- 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.
- Schaller6
Zip codes with a Schaller address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Schaller — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.