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Unionville

$2,200 a yearproperty tax on a $200,000 home here, FY27, for every local government ($26.17 per $1,000 of taxable value)¹

$680 a yearof that goes to the city ($8.10 per $1,000)

$12,675property taxes the city levies, FY27

$39,731city budget, all funds, FY27²

Who runs it

The city council passes ordinances, adopts the budget and sets the city’s property tax.

Denise EwingUnionville Mayor · elected November 4, 2025
Henry HermanUnionville City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Louise IngramUnionville City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Paul WardUnionville City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Richard EwingUnionville City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Sandy SnowUnionville City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025

Officials are worked out from election results: every member whose four-year term is still running, plus appointments and titles Iowa Funnel has been told about. A resignation may not show yet.

Meetings and agendas

What the council is deciding: each agenda, the resolutions and ordinances on it, and a plain-language summary.

Iowa Funnel doesn’t read this city’s agendas yet. Every council and board posts its agenda at least 24 hours before it meets.

Property taxes

How the bill is collected · What each levy is for

Who gets a property owner’s tax bill in Unionville

Homes and businesses in most of Unionville pay a combined $26.17 per $1,000 of taxable value (FY27). They pay it all to the Appanoose County treasurer, who passes each government its share; the city sets and gets only its own piece, $8.10. Estimate your bill.

Moravia schools$10.9542%
City of Unionville$8.1031%
Appanoose County$5.0619%
Indian Hills Community College$1.245%
Appanoose County Assessor$0.522%
Appanoose County Extension (ISU Extension and Outreach)$0.311%

Rates over time

Per $1,000 of taxable value: the typical combined rate people in Unionville pay, and the city government’s own piece of it.

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$32.16	$8.10
FY21	$30.10	$8.10
FY22	–	$7.80
FY23	–	$7.44
FY24	$28.08	$6.68
FY25	–	$6.55
FY26	$28.32	$8.10
FY27	$26.17	$8.10

Show the numbers

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$32.16	$8.10
FY21	$30.10	$8.10
FY22	–	$7.80
FY23	–	$7.44
FY24	$28.08	$6.68
FY25	–	$6.55
FY26	$28.32	$8.10
FY27	$26.17	$8.10

Compared with places this size³

Unionville’s city property tax rate of $8.10 per $1,000 is the 39th lowest of 88 Iowa cities with 50–110 people. The middle of the group is $9.38.

See all 88

#	Place	Rate per $1,000	People
1	Castana	$34.13	103
2	Dougherty	$25.38	61
3	Hansell	$23.66	85
4	Whitten	$22.65	98
5	Stanley	$20.69	86
6	Ricketts	$19.22	105
7	Varina	$19.09	69
8	Sharpsburg	$18.93	69
9	Grant	$18.71	82
10	Derby	$18.13	89
11	Vining	$16.97	53
12	Northboro	$15.81	52
13	Popejoy	$15.80	76
14	Marne	$15.03	109
15	Baldwin	$14.91	99
16	Truesdale	$14.56	64
17	Yorktown	$14.48	60
18	Ferguson	$13.53	98
19	Cylinder	$12.52	84
20	Aredale	$12.19	59
21	Colwell	$12.14	52
22	Arion	$12.14	99
23	Dolliver	$11.85	63
24	Morley	$11.74	94
25	Toronto	$11.68	101
26	Matlock	$11.44	74
27	Melrose	$11.27	110
28	Nodaway	$11.20	74
29	Promise City	$11.13	91
30	Plover	$11.10	52
31	Masonville	$11.00	98
32	Numa	$10.80	69
33	Pacific Junction	$10.56	99
34	Oto	$10.45	71
35	Bradgate	$10.37	76
36	North Washington	$10.23	107
37	Dawson	$10.19	110
38	Guernsey	$10.13	59
39	Hartwick	$9.90	91
40	Gray	$9.85	62
41	Webster	$9.55	94
42	Nemaha	$9.53	65
43	Martinsburg	$9.49	109
44	Kirkman	$9.44	60
45	Wiota	$9.32	91
46	Fraser	$8.81	107
47	Macksburg	$8.81	103
48	Andover	$8.28	106
49	Knierim	$8.13	53
50	Unionville	$8.10	74
51	Carpenter	$8.10	92
52	Orchard	$8.10	64
53	Turin	$8.10	69
54	Struble	$8.10	72
55	Shannon City	$8.10	73
56	Chillicothe	$8.10	79
57	Clio	$8.10	67
58	Scarville	$8.10	75
59	Buckeye	$7.94	82
60	Gruver	$7.89	63
61	Redding	$7.86	64
62	Morrison	$7.86	101
63	Oyens	$7.86	88
64	Ralston	$7.86	76
65	Chatsworth	$7.86	72
66	Cromwell	$7.81	104
67	Arispe	$7.71	95
68	Luzerne	$7.69	111
69	Westwood	$7.67	96
70	Kinross	$7.57	80
71	Bevington	$7.41	62
72	Garber	$7.35	76
73	Spring Hill	$7.26	68
74	Greenville	$7.24	69
75	Spragueville	$7.20	92
76	Craig	$7.01	78
77	Zwingle	$6.93	86
78	Pleasant Plain	$6.79	83
79	Willey	$6.69	72
80	Tennant	$6.29	83
81	Sandyville	$6.06	59
82	Plano	$4.66	57
83	Hardy	$4.36	55
84	Keomah Village	$3.15	107
85	Graf	$2.56	76
86	Gibson	$1.88	58
87	North Buena Vista	$1.78	107
88	Balltown	$0.12	78

The $8.10 limit

Unionville’s general levy is $8.10 per $1,000 of taxable value in FY27, at the limit.⁴ 247 of 934 Iowa cities have a higher general levy. All cities.

$8.10

FY23 $7.44 · FY24 $6.68 · FY25 $6.55 · FY26 $8.10 · FY27 $8.10 (before FY25, the general levy alone)

The city’s levies, FY27

What the city raises from each levy. The general levy is capped by state law; the others are set aside for one purpose.

Consolidate General Fund$12,199100%

Budget and spending

Reading a local budget

Where each dollar of Unionville’s budget goes, FY26

Planned spending from all funds, including city-run utilities like water and sewer (“business type”), which some cities run and others don’t. Transfers between funds are left out. “Cities this size” is the average for the 89 Iowa cities closest in size (50–110 people).

Where it goes	Of each dollar	Cities this size (89)
Public Works	48¢	31¢
General Government	25¢	33¢
Culture and Recreation	21¢	6¢
Public Safety	4¢	11¢
Community and Economic Development	1¢	3¢

Planned spending, FY27

All funds: property taxes, utility and other fees, state and federal money. “Business type” is city-run utilities and enterprises like water or sewer.

General Government$14,69337%
Culture and Recreation$11,50029%
Public Works$10,71027%
Public Safety$2,1285%
Community and Economic Development$7002%

Budget compared with what it spent, FY23

Function	Budget	Spent
Public Works	$5,400	$5,409
Public Safety	$826	$799
Health and Social Services	$0	$0
General Government	$7,850	$8,933
Debt Service	$0	$0
Culture and Recreation	$8,300	$10,081
Community and Economic Development	$300	$102
Capital Projects	$0	$0
Business Type / Enterprise	$0	$0

What it spent each year

FY24 left out⁵

$30,689

$25,141

State money

What the State of Iowa pays the city each year, and whether it has kept up with prices. Does state money keep pace? ⁶

What the state pays the city every year

Road Use Tax for streets, the commercial and industrial tax “backfill”, and ambulance reimbursement, paid every year by formula: $3,480 in FY25, down 19% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 35% less. Grants are below.

Show the numbers

Source	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25
Road Use Tax (streets)	$3,593	$3,371	$4,843	$3,480

Grants and project money

State grants and money for specific projects (roads, development, natural resources) vary with what the city applies for and wins, so they aren’t counted as the state’s regular support.

$10,141

$9,959

Sales Tax$9,959100%

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$0
FY20	$0
FY21	$0
FY22	$0
FY23	$0
FY24	$10,141
FY25	$9,959

Show the numbers

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$0
FY20	$0
FY21	$0
FY22	$0
FY23	$0
FY24	$10,141
FY25	$9,959

Has it kept up with prices?

Each source from FY19 to FY25, after inflation.

Road Use Tax (streets)−35%$4,288 → $3,480, down 19% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 35% less

Collected by the state for the city

The local option sales tax is a city tax voters approved; the state collects it with the state sales tax and sends it back. It isn’t state aid. It’s up 8% since FY19 while prices rose 4%, so it buys 4% more.

$9,209

$9,196

Federal grants, for comparison: $7,079 in FY22.

Elections

Most recent: November 4, 2025

City · 2

Unionville City Council At-Large

5 seats: the top 5 win.

Richard Ewing Winner626.1%
Louise Ingram Winner626.1%
Paul Ward Winner521.7%
Henry Herman Winner313.0%
Sandy Snow Winner313.0%

Unionville Mayor

Denise Ewing Unopposed3100.0%

Local races from civicAPI and county auditors for Unionville; official results are on each county auditor’s site.

Related places

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁷

Cherielynn Westrich (Sen. 13)Austin Harris (Rep. 26)

U.S. House:District 3

Appanoose County Moravia schools

Notas

For a $200,000 home with the homestead credit, at the combined rate in most of the city. Some parts of the city pay a different rate (special districts, tax increment financing districts). ↩
Cities adopt their budgets each spring for the year starting July 1. ↩
FY27 rates from the Department of Management. A higher rate isn’t always a bigger bill: it depends on how much property there is to tax. Sizes: Census Bureau 2024 estimates. ↩
Iowa Code section 384.1, as changed by House File 718 (2023). Until FY25 a city’s regular general levy was capped at $8.10 by itself, and a city at the cap could add an emergency levy of up to $0.27. From FY25 the general levy and several smaller levies were combined into one “consolidated” general levy with an $8.10 limit; a city whose combined rate was above $8.10 lowers it in steps, in years its taxable value grows by more than the law allows, until it reaches $8.10. So years before FY25 aren’t directly comparable with later ones. ↩
The state’s FY24 spending file repeats the year before for nearly every Iowa city, so that year isn’t shown. ↩
From the city’s annual financial reports to the state (Iowa Data Hub, city actual revenues). “Today’s dollars” adjusts each year by the consumer price index for the Midwest, so a flat line in today’s dollars means the money buys the same as before. ↩
Legislative and congressional districts that cover Unionville; percentages are rough shares of its area. These lawmakers write the state laws and budget Unionville works within. ↩

Fuentes: City budgets and levies from the Department of Management; tax rates from the Iowa Data Hub; state payments from the Department of Revenue; prices from the consumer price index; legislative districts from Census Bureau maps.

Unionville

Who runs it

Meetings and agendas

Property taxes

Who gets a property owner’s tax bill in Unionville

Rates over time

Compared with places this size3

The $8.10 limit

The city’s levies, FY27

Budget and spending

Where each dollar of Unionville’s budget goes, FY26

Planned spending, FY27

What it spent each year

State money

What the state pays the city every year

Grants and project money

Has it kept up with prices?

Collected by the state for the city

Elections

Most recent: November 4, 2025

Related places

At the Statehouse and in Congress7

Compared with places this size³

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁷