Weldon, Iowa.
Typical home $237,246 (+7.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$563 (+83%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $16,992 +8%
- $220,254$237,246 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.
- Weldon$1,245
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Weldon, IA rose 7.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Weldon, Decatur County, Iowa
Weldon is a city of 136 people in Decatur County. Unemployment in Decatur County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Decatur 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Weldon is a very small city in Decatur County, Iowa, where neighbors tend to know one another and daily life moves at an unhurried pace. Typical home values here are modest, and a small share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm days, and rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Decatur County, some of the largest workplaces are Graceland University-Lamoni, the Central Decatur Comm School District and Decatur County Hospital. Unemployment in the county is low and about the same as a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs over the past year. The typical commute is a moderate drive, long enough to cross a good stretch of the county.
Things to do. The Weldon River, a short drive away, is the closest outdoor spot. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Nine Eagles State Park and Red Haw State Park, both protected areas with room to walk and spend time outdoors. The Grand River is also a longer drive away for those who like to be near water.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
What people in Decatur County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Decatur County had 2,312 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 28 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Osceola weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Decatur County
- Graceland University-LamoniUniversity or college302
- Central Decatur Comm School DistrictSchool district113FTE
- Decatur County HospitalCritical access hospital96FTE
- Lamoni Comm School DistrictSchool district56FTE
- Care Initiatives53
- National Management Resources Graceland UniversityJanitorial services28
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores25
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 269 people in all across the county; Weldon has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Weldon’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 Decatur County.
Weldon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Weldon$237,246
- 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 Weldon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Weldon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Weldon
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50264 | Weldon | 502 | — | $222,040 |
| 50103 | Garden Grove | 453 | — | $207,227 |
| 50262 | Van Wert | 263 | — | $174,591 |