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Cost of living in St. Ansgar, Iowa

St. Ansgar, Iowa has about 1,206 people. Typical rent is $912 a month, including utilities, and a typical household earns $76,458 a year. Both figures are Census 2020–2024 medians, not a listing or your pay. This site does not approve or deny benefits. A missing figure stays blank. We do not guess it.

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Typical rent is $912 a month.

St. Ansgar is a city in Iowa. That rent number includes utilities. A typical household earns $76,458 a year.

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People
1,206
Census average, 2020–2024
Typical rent
$912
Median gross rent, includes utilities
Typical pay
$76,458
Median household income, yearly
Typical home
$152,500
Median home value
2-bedroom fair rent
$927
Mitchell County, IA

St. Ansgar, Iowa has about 1,206 people. That count is a 2020–2024 Census average, not a headcount from one day.

A typical home is worth about $152,500.

HUD's fair-market rent for a 2-bedroom in Mitchell County is $927 a month. That is the county number, not an apartment listing in St. Ansgar. It runs from October 2026 through September 2027.

Iowa's prices sit at 87.8 when the U.S. average is 100. This place is not in a metro area with its own index, so this is the state number from BEA for 2024.

Iowa taxes wages. A typical combined sales tax is 6.9% as of January 1, 2026. That mix is statewide, not St. Ansgar's exact store tax.

Some places in Iowa add a local wage tax. In 2023 the state average was about 0.08% of income. That is not a St. Ansgar bill.

In July 2026, a typical Iowa home paid 15.99¢ per kilowatt-hour. That is a state average from EIA, not St. Ansgar's bill.

EIA did not publish a 2025 all-grades gas price for Iowa in the table we use.

Among 264 places we list in Iowa with a rent figure, 97 have higher typical rent than St. Ansgar.

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Census 2020-2024. HUD rents for October 2026–September 2027. BEA prices for 2024. Taxes as of January 1, 2026. Checked 2026-10-16. 15,000 places are in this guide.