West Point, Iowa.
Typical home $180,936 (+7.6% in a year). Fort Madison-Keokuk, IA-IL-MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$421 (+80%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $12,784 +8%
- $168,152$180,936 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.
- West Point$950
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in West Point, IA rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in West Point, Lee County, Iowa
West Point is a city of 921 people in Lee County. Half its households earn more than $73,125 a year and half less, against $62,382 across Lee County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Lee County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. West Point is a small city in Lee County, Iowa, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run higher than across the county, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing in January and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm days.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing a good number. Across Lee County, some of the largest workplaces are Conagra Brands, Fort Madison Community Hospital and the Fort Madison Comm School District. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Geode State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. So is the Faeth Farmstead and Orchard District, a garden. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Shimek State Forest, another protected area, and to the Des Moines River.
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- 386households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lee County had 13,598 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 27 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Donnellson weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lee County
- Conagra BrandsMeat processed from carcasses539
- Henniges Automotive IowaExtruded, molded or lathe-cut rubber goods manufacturing428
- Fort Madison Community HospitalGeneral medical and surgical hospitals413
- Fort Madison Comm School DistrictSchool district349FTE
- Keokuk Comm School DistrictSchool district300FTE
- The Scotts Company - Fort MadisonPesticide and fertilizer manufacturing298
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters290
- Koch Fertilizer WeverNitrogenous fertilizer materials manufacturing256
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 52 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,472 people in all across the county; West Point 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in West Point’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 Lee County and the Fort Madison-Keokuk, IA-IL-MO metro.
West Point home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- West Point$180,936
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a West Point address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls West Point — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.