Udell, Iowa.
Typical home $210,434 (+7.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$541 (+96%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $15,454 +8%
- $194,980$210,434 since Sep 2025
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.
- Udell$1,105
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Udell, IA rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Udell, Appanoose County, Iowa
Udell is a city of 28 people in Appanoose County. Unemployment in Appanoose County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Appanoose County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Udell is a very small city in Appanoose County, in the southern part of Iowa, so most people here know one another. Winters are cold with regular snowfall, summers are warm, and rain falls steadily through the year. The town's quiet setting gives it the feel of a close farming community.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in transport, warehousing and utilities. Across Appanoose County, the number of jobs has edged down in recent years, so steady local work is worth looking for.
Things to do. Lake Wapello State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, and Lake Wapello, a lake, is also close by. Rathbun Lake, a reservoir, and the International Video Game Hall of Fame, a museum, are each a longer drive away.
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What people in Appanoose County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Appanoose County had 4,522 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 63°. About 22 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Centerville weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Appanoose County
- AMCOR Flexibles North AmericaFlexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing223
- Centerville Comm School DistrictSchool district197FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters189
- Greif (Centerville)Septic tanks, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing180
- Wells Vehicle ElectronicsCoils, ignition, internal combustion engines, manufacturing166
- Mercy Medical Center-centervilleCritical access hospital119FTE
- Iowa Steel & WireConcrete reinforcing mesh made from purchased wire86
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores84
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,382 people in all across the county; Udell 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Udell’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 Appanoose County.
Udell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Udell$210,434
- 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 Udell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Udell — 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.