Whiting, Iowa.
Typical home $182,017 (+0.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$507 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,607 +1%
- $180,410$182,017 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,511 +25%
- $145,505$182,017 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.
- Whiting$955
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Whiting, IA rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Whiting, Monona County, Iowa
Whiting is a city of 745 people in Monona County. Unemployment in Monona County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Monona County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Whiting is a small city in Monona County, in western Iowa, with a population that is small enough for neighbors to know one another. Typical home values here are modest, and the commute to work is short. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm days, and rain and melted snow through the year add up to a moderate amount.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and farming, forestry and mining, with manufacturing and shops also employing a good number. Across Monona County, some of the largest workplaces are Burgess Health Center, a critical access hospital, along with the West Monona and Whiting community school districts. Unemployment across the county is low and has held steady from a year earlier, and the county had slightly more jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Lewis and Clark State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and the West Fork of the Little Sioux River, also a short drive off, is a place for time by the water. For an evening out, the Onawa IOOF Opera House is a theatre a short drive away. Farther afield, the Loess Hills are a longer drive away and offer park country to explore.
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- 314households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Monona County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Monona County had 2,556 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 31 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Onawa 3NW weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Monona County
- Burgess Health CenterCritical access hospital153FTE
- Maple Valley-Anthon Oto Comm School DistrictSchool district109FTE
- West Monona Comm School DistrictSchool district106FTE
- Maple HeightsNursing homes90
- Whiting Comm School DistrictSchool district43FTE
- Trivium Life Services (Onawa)Habilitation job counseling and training, vocational42
- Westendorf Mfg CoBalers, farm-type, manufacturing38
- AVE PLP423820 farm and garden machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 234 people in all across the county; Whiting 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
- HailVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Whiting’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 Monona County.
Whiting home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Whiting$182,017
- 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 Whiting address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Whiting — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.