Zwingle, Iowa.
Typical home $396,764 (+9.3% in a year). Dubuque, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,226 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $33,898 +9%
- $362,865$396,764 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $120,396 +44%
- $276,367$396,764 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.
- Zwingle$2,083
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Zwingle, IA rose 9.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Zwingle, Jackson County, Iowa
Zwingle is a city of 84 people in Jackson County. Unemployment in Jackson County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Zwingle is a very small city in Jackson County, in eastern Iowa, where people tend to know one another. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is the warmest, and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing and shops. Others work in farming, forestry and mining, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Maquoketa Caves State Park, a protected area, and the Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, a botanical garden, are both a longer drive away. The National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 2%of adults have a degree
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 5,754 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 42 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dubuque Regional Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Family Dollar, LLC DC206General warehousing and storage237
- Maquoketa Comm School DistrictSchool district223FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters194
- HUSCO International MaquoketaValves, hydraulic and pneumatic, fluid power, manufacturing117
- Jackson County Public HospitalCritical access hospital109FTE
- Bellevue Comm School DistrictSchool district96FTE
- Plastics UnlimitedAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing90
- Imagine the PossibilitiesJob training, vocational rehabilitation or habilitation88
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,459 people in all across the county; Zwingle has none 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Zwingle’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 Jackson County and the Dubuque, IA metro.
Zwingle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Zwingle$396,764
- 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 Zwingle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Zwingle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.