Stout, Iowa.
Typical home $138,527 (+1.3% in a year). Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$372 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,775 +1%
- $136,752$138,527 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,601 +30%
- $106,926$138,527 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.
- Stout$727
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Stout, IA rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Stout, Grundy County, Iowa
Stout is a city of 191 people in Grundy County. Half its households earn more than $82,500 a year and half less, against $87,205 across Grundy County. Unemployment in Grundy County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grundy 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stout is a very small city in Grundy County, Iowa, where most people know one another by sight. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and homes here are modestly priced. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while July brings warm days and the year sees plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and the building trades also common. Across Grundy County, some of the largest workplaces are the Dike-New Hartford Community School District, Grundy County Memorial Hospital and Green Products Company. Few people here work from home, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Pine Lake State Park and George Wyth Memorial State Park are both protected areas, and the Shell Rock River is a river to visit, each a longer drive away. Lost Island Theme Park is an amusement park, also a longer drive from town.
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- 20%of adults have a degree
- 4%work from home
What people in Grundy County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grundy County had 4,081 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 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 32 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grundy Ctr weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grundy County
- Peterson CotractorsOil field road construction534
- Dike-New Hartford Comm School DistrictSchool district140FTE
- Grundy County Mem. HospitalCritical access hospital130FTE
- Grundy Center Comm School DistrictSchool district117FTE
- Green Products CompanyRaw farm products merchant wholesalers102
- Gladbrook-Reinbeck Comm School DistrictSchool district94FTE
- Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc - Reinbeck SPSCSeed processing, post-harvest for propagation93
- BCLUW Comm School DistrictSchool district90FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,529 people in all across the county; Stout 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
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Stout’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 Grundy County and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA metro.
Stout home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stout$138,527
- 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 Stout address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stout — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.