Thurman, Iowa.
Typical home $209,001 (+9.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$578 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,785 +10%
- $190,216$209,001 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,910 +21%
- $172,091$209,001 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.
- Thurman$1,097
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Thurman, IA rose 9.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Thurman, Fremont County, Iowa
Thurman is a city of 167 people in Fremont County. Half its households earn more than $91,188 a year and half less, against $71,621 across Fremont County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Fremont County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fremont 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Thurman is a very small Iowa town in Fremont County, with far fewer people than most places of any kind. Household incomes here run above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a small farm-country town. A four-year degree is held by relatively few adults, and homes are valued at a modest level for the country as a whole. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July brings real summer warmth, and rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and the building trades also well represented. Across Fremont County, the largest workplaces include Conagra Brands, the Sidney Comm School District and Grape Community Hospital in Hamburg. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Walnut Creek, a river a short drive away, is the closest of the outdoor spots, and the Walker Gilmore Site, an archaeological site, is also a short drive. Farther afield, Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium is one of the best known places in the region and takes a longer drive to reach. Waubonsie State Park, a protected area, is another longer drive for a day among the trees and trails.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Fremont County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fremont County had 2,168 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 21 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sidney 1SSE weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fremont County
- Conagra BrandsAll other miscellaneous food manufacturing100
- Sidney Comm School DistrictSchool district83FTE
- Grape Community Hospital - HamburgCritical access hospital79FTE
- Manildra MillingStarches manufacturing77
- Sapp Bros.,IncGasoline stations with convenience stores75
- Green Plains ShenandoahManufacturer of fuel ethanol74
- The Ambassador SidneyNursing homes55
- Hamburg Comm School DistrictSchool district43FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 461 people in all across the county; Thurman 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Thurman’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 Fremont County.
Thurman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Thurman$209,001
- 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 Thurman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Thurman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.