Stanton, Iowa.
Typical home $201,733 (-0.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$599 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,283 -1%
- $203,017$201,733 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,151 +40%
- $143,582$201,733 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.
- Stanton$1,059
- 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 Stanton, IA fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stanton, Montgomery County, Iowa
Stanton is a city of 678 people in Montgomery County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Montgomery County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stanton is a small Iowa city where most people own the homes they live in, and the population skews older than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and a fair amount of snow falls each year. Summers are warm, with July the warmest month, and rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, manufacturing, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Few work from home, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Across Montgomery County, the largest workplaces include Montgomery Cnty Memorial Hospital, Parker Hannifin's hose products plant in Red Oak, and the Red Oak Comm School District.
Things to do. Viking Lake State Park is a park a short drive away, and it is the closest of the outdoor spots nearby. Lake Icaria, a reservoir, is a longer drive away. The Nodaway River is also a longer drive away and suits those who like time by moving water.
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- 246households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montgomery County had 4,004 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 27 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Red Oak weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montgomery County
- Montgomery Cnty Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital245FTE
- Parker Hannifin - Hose Products, Red OakRubber manufacturing181
- Red Oak Comm School DistrictSchool district130FTE
- Fres-co System USAPrinting, gravure103
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores100
- Greenbrier - American HydraulicsRailroad switching services86
- Clarios - Red OakStorage battery manufacturing80
- Accura healthcare of StantonNursing homes78
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,423 people in all across the county; Stanton has two 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
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Stanton’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 Montgomery County.
Stanton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stanton$201,733
- 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.
- Stanton6
Zip codes with a Stanton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stanton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.