Home values, rents and more in the Mason City metro area
September 2026 figures from Zillow and the U.S. Census Bureau · updated 2026-11-07
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How the Mason City metro compares
The typical home in the Mason City metro area is worth about $203,000, according to the Zillow Home Value Index for September 2026. Home values in the Mason City metro are 14% below the typical value in Iowa ($237,000) and 45% below the U.S. typical value ($366,000).
Over the past year, home values in the Mason City metro rose 3.2%, compared with +3.3% in Iowa and +1.2% nationally.
Typical rent is $951 a month (Zillow Observed Rent Index), 21% below Iowa ($1,208) and 51% below the U.S. ($1,932).
The median household income is $68,926, against $75,059 in Iowa and $80,734 in the U.S. (Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–24).
About 49,710 people live in the Mason City metro (Census Bureau estimate for July 2025).
The Mason City metro has the 266th-lowest typical home value of the 923 metro areas in the United States and the 12th-highest of 23 in Iowa with Zillow figures.
Part of: Iowa
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Sources
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), all homes, middle tier, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, September 2026. Rents: Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), seasonally adjusted. Population: Census population estimates (July 2025) for states, metros and counties; ACS 2020–24 for cities and ZIP codes. Income: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–24 5-year estimates. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files. Compiled by Home Economics.
"Typical" is Zillow's middle-tier value (homes between the 35th and 65th percentiles), not a median sale price. Changes are over the 12 months to September 2026.