Wheatland, Iowa.
Typical home $155,074 (+3.8% in a year). Clinton, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$447 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,710 +4%
- $149,365$155,074 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,859 +28%
- $121,215$155,074 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.
- Wheatland$814
- 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 Wheatland, IA rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wheatland, Clinton County, Iowa
Wheatland is a city of 775 people in Clinton County. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Clinton County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clinton 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wheatland is a very small Iowa city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the share of residents living below the poverty line is low. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a long one, so many people travel some distance for work. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, and summers turn warm in July. Snow falls through the cold months, and the town sees a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. Across Clinton County, the largest workplaces include Archer Daniels Midland Company, Mercyone Clinton Medical Center and the Clinton Comm School District. Jobs across the county slipped last year, and unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year earlier.
Things to do. Rock Creek is a river a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Rock River and the Wapsipinicon River, and to the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum. Anyone who likes a state park can head for Maquoketa Caves State Park, also a longer drive away.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Clinton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clinton County had 18,870 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 40 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lowden weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clinton County
- Archer Daniels Midland Company758
- Mercyone Clinton Medical CenterGeneral hospital659FTE
- Clinton Comm School DistrictSchool district554FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters341
- Custom-Pak Group A/Group B/PDC/CorpAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing301
- ClysarFilm, plastics, packaging, manufacturing257
- Central DeWitt School DistrictSchool district243FTE
- MercyOne Clinton North Health Plaza-MHS-IA/NEGeneral medical and surgical hospitals225
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 55 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,035 people in all across the county; Wheatland has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Wheatland’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 Clinton County and the Clinton, IA metro.
Wheatland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wheatland$155,074
- 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 Wheatland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wheatland — 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.