Williamsburg, Iowa.
Typical home $270,023 (+5.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$765 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,079 +5%
- $256,944$270,023 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,343 +31%
- $205,680$270,023 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.
- Williamsburg$1,417
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Williamsburg, IA rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Williamsburg, Iowa County, Iowa
Williamsburg is a city of 3,346 people in Iowa County. Half its households earn more than $58,059 a year and half less, against $71,223 across Iowa County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Iowa County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 7.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Iowa 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Williamsburg is a small city in Iowa County, and most homes there are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's as a whole, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm, with July the warmest, and rain and melted snow arrive through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing a good number. Among the biggest workplaces in town are Bayer Research and Development Services, the Williamsburg Community School District and Presbyterian Homes & Services. Commutes are fairly short, and few people work from home. Across Iowa County, unemployment is lower than a year ago, though there were fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Pilot Grove State Preserve, a protected natural area, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Kinnick Stadium, the University of Iowa's football stadium, and to the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art. Together they give a choice between time outdoors and a day out with art or sport.
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- 1,527households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Iowa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iowa County had 8,382 jobs in 2025, 7.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 28 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Williamsburg 1E weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Williamsburg
- Bayer Research and Development ServicesSupport activities for crop production221
- Williamsburg Comm School DistrictSchool district177FTE
- Presbyterian Homes & Services137
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 358 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Williamsburg’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 Iowa County.
Williamsburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Williamsburg$270,023
- Iowa$236,623
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Williamsburg13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Williamsburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Williamsburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.