Iowa land underwriting
Not legal or tax advice
Property tax rules
Rules used: Generic national rules.
Assessment
- Assessment ratio defaults to 100%; enter the county's ratio or assessed value if different.
Source: AcreMath generic national property-tax model (as of 2026-10-12)
Rates
- Generic national rules: annual tax = taxable value × the combined rate you enter (from the county tax bill or rate sheet).
Source: AcreMath generic national property-tax model (as of 2026-10-12)
Exemptions
- No statewide exemption amount is applied. Enter dollar exemptions from the county tax bill.
Source: AcreMath generic national property-tax model (as of 2026-10-12)
Ag/special use
- No state-specific delinquency penalties or special-use rollback are applied.
Source: AcreMath generic national property-tax model (as of 2026-10-12)
Delinquency
- No state-specific delinquency penalties or special-use rollback are applied.
Source: AcreMath generic national property-tax model (as of 2026-10-12)
How it works: methodology.
County registry (99 counties)
Counties and equivalents from the Census 2020 (national_county2020.txt). Start a deal in any county.
- Adair County (19001)
- Adams County (19003)
- Allamakee County (19005)
- Appanoose County (19007)
- Audubon County (19009)
- Benton County (19011)
- Black Hawk County (19013)
- Boone County (19015)
- Bremer County (19017)
- Buchanan County (19019)
- Buena Vista County (19021)
- Butler County (19023)
- Calhoun County (19025)
- Carroll County (19027)
- Cass County (19029)
- Cedar County (19031)
- Cerro Gordo County (19033)
- Cherokee County (19035)
- Chickasaw County (19037)
- Clarke County (19039)
- Clay County (19041)
- Clayton County (19043)
- Clinton County (19045)
- Crawford County (19047)
- Dallas County (19049)
- Davis County (19051)
- Decatur County (19053)
- Delaware County (19055)
- Des Moines County (19057)
- Dickinson County (19059)
- Dubuque County (19061)
- Emmet County (19063)
- Fayette County (19065)
- Floyd County (19067)
- Franklin County (19069)
- Fremont County (19071)
- Greene County (19073)
- Grundy County (19075)
- Guthrie County (19077)
- Hamilton County (19079)
- Hancock County (19081)
- Hardin County (19083)
- Harrison County (19085)
- Henry County (19087)
- Howard County (19089)
- Humboldt County (19091)
- Ida County (19093)
- Iowa County (19095)
- Jackson County (19097)
- Jasper County (19099)
- Jefferson County (19101)
- Johnson County (19103)
- Jones County (19105)
- Keokuk County (19107)
- Kossuth County (19109)
- Lee County (19111)
- Linn County (19113)
- Louisa County (19115)
- Lucas County (19117)
- Lyon County (19119)
- Madison County (19121)
- Mahaska County (19123)
- Marion County (19125)
- Marshall County (19127)
- Mills County (19129)
- Mitchell County (19131)
- Monona County (19133)
- Monroe County (19135)
- Montgomery County (19137)
- Muscatine County (19139)
- O'Brien County (19141)
- Osceola County (19143)
- Page County (19145)
- Palo Alto County (19147)
- Plymouth County (19149)
- Pocahontas County (19151)
- Polk County (19153)
- Pottawattamie County (19155)
- Poweshiek County (19157)
- Ringgold County (19159)
- Sac County (19161)
- Scott County (19163)
- Shelby County (19165)
- Sioux County (19167)
- Story County (19169)
- Tama County (19171)
- Taylor County (19173)
- Union County (19175)
- Van Buren County (19177)
- Wapello County (19179)
- Warren County (19181)
- Washington County (19183)
- Wayne County (19185)
- Webster County (19187)
- Winnebago County (19189)
- Winneshiek County (19191)
- Woodbury County (19193)
- Worth County (19195)
- Wright County (19197)