Sully, Iowa.
Typical home $264,200 (+6.7% in a year). Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$767 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,663 +7%
- $247,537$264,200 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,244 +36%
- $194,956$264,200 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.
- Sully$1,387
- 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 Sully, IA rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sully, Jasper County, Iowa
Sully is a city of 881 people in Jasper County. Half its households earn more than $90,189 a year and half less, against $71,311 across Jasper County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Jasper County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sully is a small city in Jasper County, Iowa, where most homes are lived in by their owners, far more so than across the county as a whole. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than is typical. Winters are cold, with January highs a little below freezing and lows well under it, while July brings warm days, and the year includes a fair amount of snow along with a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in other services, with banks, insurance and property close behind. Across Jasper County, some of the largest workplaces are the Newton Comm School District, TPI Composites, which makes wind turbines, and Van Maanen Electric, an electrical contractor. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults here than is common, and few people work from home, with a typical commute that is a modest drive.
Things to do. Closest to town is the Conard Environmental Research Area, a protected area a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Rock Creek State Park, another protected area, and to the Newton Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Race fans can make a longer drive to Iowa Speedway, a race track.
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- 389households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jasper County had 10,688 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 31 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grinnell Southwest weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jasper County
- Newton Comm School DistrictSchool district413FTE
- TPI CompositesWind turbines manufacturing300
- Van Maanen ElectricElectrical contractors282
- Co-Line WeldingMachine shops255
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters236
- City of Newton IowaExecutive offices, federal, state, and local199
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores186
- PCM Comm School DistrictSchool district164FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,516 people in all across the county; Sully has two of its own. School districts come 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sully’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 Jasper County and the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro.
Sully home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sully$264,200
- 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 Sully address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sully — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.