A typical St. Ansgar home is worth about $251,000
Up 6.2% in a year, close to the Iowa typical home.
What kind of housing town is St. Ansgar?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
Up 39.8% in five years
Faster than Iowa (26.1%).
Show as a table
| January | St. Ansgar | Iowa |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $135,000 | $147,000 |
| 2018 | $139,000 | $152,000 |
| 2019 | $147,000 | $159,000 |
| 2020 | $152,000 | $167,000 |
| 2021 | $164,000 | $179,000 |
| 2022 | $192,000 | $195,000 |
| 2023 | $213,000 | $211,000 |
| 2024 | $215,000 | $218,000 |
| 2025 | $228,000 | $228,000 |
| 2026 | $245,000 | $236,000 |
| August 2026 | $251,000 | $240,000 |
A typical St. Ansgar home worth $132K in September 2016 is worth about $251K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
82% of St. Ansgar households own their home
Half of St. Ansgar’s homes were built before 1953.
Iowa: 72% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
A typical home costs 3.3 years of income
About the same as across Iowa. Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical St. Ansgar home, with $29K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,040 a month here, $550 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, St. Ansgar’s typical property tax (1.31% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,040
Renters already here pay a median of $912, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Mitchell County, IA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
1 new home permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 1 new home in St. Ansgar in 2025. That's 0.8 per 1,000 residents, slower than across Iowa (4.7). Over the past 10 years, St. Ansgar has permitted 37 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, St. Ansgar gained 53 residents while 55 new homes were permitted: about 1 new resident per new home. Building outpaced population growth, which usually means smaller households or homes used part of the year. Across Iowa: 1.3 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 2 | 2 | 0 | $638,000 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $500,000 |
| 2024 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $1.6 million |
| 2023 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $650,000 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 9 | 1 | 8 | $1.2 million |
| 2020 | 10 | 0 | 10 | $900,000 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 | $300,000 |
| 2018 | 5 | 1 | 4 | $465,000 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $315,000 |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2014 | 17 | 5 | 12 | $3.1 million |
| 2013 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $600,000 |
| 2012 | 12 | 10 | 2 | $1.7 million |
| 2011 | 10 | 10 | 0 | $1.9 million |
| 2010 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $505,000 |
| 2009 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $1 million |
| 2008 | 9 | 7 | 2 | $860,000 |
| 2007 | 9 | 3 | 6 | $945,000 |
| 2006 | 5 | 3 | 2 | $790,000 |
| 2005 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $862,000 |
| 2004 | 4 | 2 | 2 | $440,000 |
| 2003 | 6 | 4 | 2 | $571,000 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $150,000 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.