Woolstock, Iowa.
Typical home $176,110 (+1.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$370 (+67%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $3,040 +2%
- $173,071$176,110 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.
- Woolstock$924
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Woolstock, IA rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Woolstock, Wright County, Iowa
Woolstock is a city of 144 people in Wright County. Unemployment in Wright County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wright 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Woolstock is a very small Iowa city, one of the smallest places most people will ever look up. Homes here are modest in price, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Fewer people live below the poverty line here than you might expect for a farm-country town, and almost no one works from home, since the jobs are mostly ones that need you on site.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, farming and the building trades. Across Wright County, some of the largest workplaces are Hagie Manufacturing, which makes farm sprayers, Iowa Specialty Hospital - Clarion, and the Eagle Grove Comm School District. Unemployment across the county is low and a little lower than a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The best-known spot nearby is the Boone River, and Dolliver Memorial State Park, a protected area of woods and bluffs, is a longer drive away as well. The Quasdorf Blacksmith and Wagon Shop, a museum, is also a longer drive. Winters are colder than most of the country, with a good deal of snow, and summers are warm, so these outings suit the warmer months best.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What people in Wright County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wright County had 6,325 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 33 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Webster City weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wright County
- Eagle Grove Co-opAnimal fats produced in slaughtering plants925
- Hagie ManufacturingSprayers and dusters, farm-type, manufacturing268
- Iowa Specialty Hospital - ClarionCritical access hospital257FTE
- Eagle Grove Comm School DistrictSchool district180FTE
- Iowa Specialty Hospital - BelmondCritical access hospital180FTE
- Clarion-Goldfield-Dows Comm School DistrictSchool district155FTE
- 29 Presage IowaPork processing plant143
- Centrum Valley FarmsChicken egg production134
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,392 people in all across the county; Woolstock has none 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Woolstock’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 Wright County.
Woolstock home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Woolstock$176,110
- 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 Woolstock address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Woolstock — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.