Westside, Iowa.
Typical home $226,169 (+6.3% in a year). Carroll, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$712 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,446 +6%
- $212,724$226,169 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,610 +45%
- $155,559$226,169 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.
- Westside$1,187
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Westside, IA rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Westside, Crawford County, Iowa
Westside is a city of 285 people in Crawford County. Half its households earn more than $83,558 a year and half less, against $67,027 across Crawford County; 1% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Crawford County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Crawford County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Westside is a very small Iowa city in Crawford County, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days; rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, with some in farming. Across Crawford County, some of the largest workplaces are Smithfield, which processes pork, Monogram Quality Foods, which makes sausages and other prepared meats, and the Denison Comm School District. The typical commute is short, and the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier.
Things to do. Black Hawk State Park is the best known of the nearby outdoor places, a protected area a longer drive away. Black Hawk Lake and Swan Lake are also lakes within a longer drive, and Whiterock Conservancy is another protected area at about the same distance. These suit anyone who enjoys time by the water or on open land.
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- 149households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Crawford County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Crawford County had 6,449 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 34 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Denison weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Crawford County
- SmithfieldPork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants1,042
- Monogram Quality FoodsSausages and other prepared meat products314
- Denison Comm School DistrictSchool district303FTE
- Crawford County Memorial HospitalPhysicians' offices247
- Crawford County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital168FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters161
- WESCO IndustriesGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability148
- Eventide Lutheran HomeNursing homes124
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,791 people in all across the county; Westside 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
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Westside’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 Crawford County and the Carroll, IA metro.
Westside home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Westside$226,169
- 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 Westside address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Westside — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.