Springville, Iowa.
Typical home $289,760 (+7.7% in a year). Cedar Rapids, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$860 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,656 +8%
- $269,104$289,760 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,697 +36%
- $213,064$289,760 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.
- Springville$1,521
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Springville, IA rose 7.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Springville, Linn County, Iowa
Springville is a city of 1,154 people in Linn County. Half its households earn more than $92,656 a year and half less, against $77,649 across Linn County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Linn County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Springville is a very small Iowa city in Linn County, where most homes are lived in by their owners and very few residents live below the poverty line. Household incomes run well above the county's, and residents are somewhat older than in many places. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers turn warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Linn County, the largest workplaces include Mercy Medical Center, the Cedar Rapids Comm School District and St. Lukes Methodist Hospital. Commutes are of moderate length, and a share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Wapsipinicon State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Abbe Creek, a river, runs close by. Granger House, a museum, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Palisades-Kepler State Park is a park a longer drive away.
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- 455households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Linn County had 125,508 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 34 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cedar Rapids #1 weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Linn County
- Mercy Medical CenterMedical doctors' offices2,692
- Cedar Rapids Comm School DistrictSchool district2,448FTE
- St. Lukes Methodist HospitalGeneral hospital1,897FTE
- Linn-Mar Comm School DistrictSchool district1,161FTE
- College Comm School DistrictSchool district927FTE
- Frito LAYBreakfast cereal manufacturing885
- BAE SystemsSearch and detection systems and instruments manufacturing814
- FedExCourier and express delivery services626
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 380 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 38,500 people in all across the county; Springville 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Springville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Linn County and the Cedar Rapids, IA metro.
Springville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Springville$289,760
- 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.
- Springville6
Zip codes with a Springville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Springville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.