Truro, Iowa.
Typical home $281,156 (+2.9% in a year). Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$792 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,889 +3%
- $273,267$281,156 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,318 +27%
- $220,839$281,156 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.
- Truro$1,476
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Truro, IA rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Truro, Madison County, Iowa
Truro is a city of 509 people in Madison County. Unemployment in Madison County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Truro is a very small Iowa city, home to a young community with a lower median age than much of the country. Home values here sit well below what is typical nationally, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, and summers are warm, with July the hottest month. Snow falls through the cold season and rain comes through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Across Madison County, the largest workplaces include the Winterset Comm School District, Madison County Memorial Hospital and Hy-Vee. Commutes are on the long side, which fits a town where many people travel some distance to their jobs, and some work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, Winterset City Park is a garden a longer drive away, and Lake Ahquabi State Park is a protected area, also a longer drive away. Those who like the water can visit the Middle River, another longer drive off. The Iowa State Capitol is a museum, also a longer drive away.
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- 21%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 4,194 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 31 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Winterset 1S weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison County
- Hy-VeeGeneral warehousing and storage448
- Winterset Comm School DistrictSchool district233FTE
- Agriland FS - WintersetAgricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers200
- Interstate 35 Comm School DistrictSchool district141FTE
- Madison County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital133FTE
- Van Meter Comm School DistrictSchool district124FTE
- Fareway Stores, Inc. 683 WintersetGrocery stores117
- Earlham Comm School DistrictSchool district99FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,144 people in all across the county; Truro has one 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
- DroughtVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold 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 Truro’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Madison County and the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro.
Truro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Truro$281,156
- 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.
- Truro6
Zip codes with a Truro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Truro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.