SperryIA
Settled in 1870, this town now has 73 residents.
Is Sperry a good place to live?
Among 141 Iowa towns, just 2 have a higher median age than Sperry. Baptist Church and Robert and Catharine (Ripley) Allen House is on the National Register of Historic Places. Sperry has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.
73 people, and everyone knows the way
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The data
Ordered by what stands out in Sperry.
The typical home in Sperry is valued at about $296K
82% of Sperry households live in a home they own. Typical home values rose 8.5% in the year to September 2026.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Sperry has four seasons and pleasant summers
Expect July afternoons of 85° and January nights of 15°, with about 17 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Sperry has a high natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
FEMA expects more storm and flood damage in Sperry than in 65% of U.S. communities. Expected losses in Sperry break down as 47% from inland flooding and 14% from drought.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
A larger share of adults in Sperry had a checkup this year than in the typical Iowa or U.S. town
Among adults in Sperry, 17% say their health is fair or poor, below both the Iowa town median (18%) and the median of U.S. towns (19%). For adults 18 to 64 locally, the share who have no health insurance is 5.8%. On the CDC’s 32 measures, Sperry is ahead of Iowa on 5 and behind on 2.
| Sperry | Iowa towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 32% | 36% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 81% | 78% | 79% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 32% | 33% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 20% | 16% |
| What stands out | Sperry | IA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 5.4% | 11.6% |
| More adults seeing a dentist | 73.3% | 66.8% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.1% | 8.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Everything we know about Sperry
Moving to Sperry: who provides what
Sperry is unincorporated, so Des Moines County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Sperry
About 0 of every 100 Sperry residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Iowa.
About Sperry
Census-designated place in Iowa, United States
Sperry is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in central Des Moines County, Iowa, United States. It lies along local roads north of the city of Burlington, the county seat of Des Moines County. Its elevation is 751 feet (229 m). Although Sperry is unincorporated, it has a post office with the ZIP code of 52650, which opened on 5 February 1870. As of the 2020 census, Sperry had a population of 124. The community is part of the Burlington, IA–IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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- Elevation
- 751 ft
- ZIP code
- 52650
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