Stanhope, Iowa.
Typical home $171,928 (+4.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$520 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,991 +5%
- $163,937$171,928 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,303 +39%
- $123,625$171,928 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.
- Stanhope$902
- 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 Stanhope, IA rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stanhope, Hamilton County, Iowa
Stanhope is a city of 364 people in Hamilton County. Half its households earn more than $60,750 a year and half less, against $72,432 across Hamilton County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Hamilton County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hamilton County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stanhope is a very small Iowa city, where most people are likely to know one another by sight. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with snow on the ground often, and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. Across Hamilton County, some of the largest workplaces are Van Diest Supply Company, Webster City Comm School District and Van Diest Medical Center. Most people leave town for work, and the typical commute is a fairly long one; very few work from home.
Things to do. The Boone River and Little Wall Lake are both a short drive away, for time on the water or along the banks. A longer drive brings you to Reiman Gardens, a botanical garden, and Ledges State Park, a protected area of woods and bluffs. Jack Trice Stadium, a college football stadium, is also a longer drive away.
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- 217households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Hamilton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hamilton County had 5,703 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 33 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Webster City weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hamilton County
- Van Diest Supply CompanyPesticide and other agricultural chemical manufacturing557
- Webster City Comm School DistrictSchool district277FTE
- Van Diest Medical CenterCritical access hospital200FTE
- City of Webster CityAdministrative office118
- VantecSeptic tanks, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing113
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores104
- South Hamilton Comm School DistrictSchool district100FTE
- Hanor Company of WisconsinAgriculture95
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,624 people in all across the county; Stanhope 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Stanhope’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 Hamilton County.
Stanhope home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stanhope$171,928
- 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 Stanhope address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stanhope — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.