City

Walford

$2,790 a yearproperty tax on a $200,000 home here, FY27, for every local government ($33.16 per $1,000 of taxable value)¹

$730 a yearof that goes to the city ($8.72 per $1,000)

$770,128property taxes the city levies, FY27

$1.6Mcity budget, FY27, without city-run utilities (not yet reported)²

Who runs it

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

Amy EllisWalford City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Jesse BergmeierWalford City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Randy BauerWalford Mayor · elected November 4, 2025
Katheryn JonesWalford City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Matt GreinerWalford City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Randy BauerWalford City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023

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

Where a property tax dollar goes in Walford

The combined rate in most of Walford is $34.01 per $1,000 of taxable value (FY27). The city sets only its own piece. Estimate your bill.

College schools$16.5949%
City of Walford$8.7226%
Benton County$6.7720%
Kirkwood Community. College$1.434%
Benton County Assessor$0.34<1%
Benton County Extension (ISU Extension and Outreach)$0.16<1%

Compared with places this size³

Walford’s city property tax rate of $8.72 per $1,000 is the 13th lowest of 142 Iowa cities with 910–2,000 people. The middle of the group is $13.43.

See all 142

#	Place	Rate per $1,000	People
1	Elkader	$27.11	1,192
2	Laurens	$24.16	1,253
3	Pocahontas	$20.79	1,848
4	Villisca	$19.74	1,106
5	Sac City	$19.69	1,992
6	Traer	$19.56	1,547
7	Corning	$19.36	1,509
8	Lake City	$19.32	1,656
9	Allison	$19.06	937
10	Corydon	$18.22	1,563
11	Dysart	$17.95	1,266
12	Greene	$17.91	971
13	Britt	$17.72	2,001
14	Lansing	$17.67	959
15	Strawberry Point	$17.58	1,141
16	Rockwell	$17.54	1,044
17	Gowrie	$17.17	943
18	Mapleton	$16.90	1,114
19	George	$16.89	1,106
20	Manson	$16.87	1,646
21	Fayette	$16.85	1,193
22	Eddyville	$16.82	965
23	Nashua	$16.81	1,515
24	Ackley	$16.63	1,538
25	Audubon	$16.52	2,008
26	Roland	$16.51	1,376
27	Monona	$16.41	1,462
28	Aplington	$16.34	1,088
29	Durant	$16.24	1,798
30	Panora	$16.14	1,096
31	Mechanicsville	$16.12	974
32	Dike	$15.94	1,293
33	Holstein	$15.81	1,475
34	State Center	$15.80	1,403
35	Pleasantville	$15.80	1,696
36	Earlham	$15.55	1,411
37	Shell Rock	$15.52	1,265
38	Brooklyn	$15.49	1,474
39	Stuart	$15.48	1,887
40	Mount Ayr	$15.32	1,616
41	Neola	$15.30	917
42	Sigourney	$15.20	1,974
43	Guttenberg	$15.19	1,804
44	Sidney	$15.19	1,048
45	Logan	$15.05	1,351
46	Griswold	$15.01	975
47	Tripoli	$14.99	1,208
48	Sumner	$14.83	2,032
49	Woodbine	$14.80	1,707
50	Bedford	$14.66	1,474
51	Lenox	$14.65	1,355
52	Manning	$14.62	1,390
53	Van Meter	$14.60	1,840
54	Dunlap	$14.56	1,030
55	Coon Rapids	$14.49	1,258
56	Nora Springs	$14.25	1,330
57	Kingsley	$14.25	1,394
58	Urbana	$14.20	1,635
59	Sheffield	$14.16	1,123
60	Parkersburg	$14.15	1,986
61	Hartley	$14.11	1,584
62	Ida Grove	$14.10	1,988
63	Woodward	$14.05	1,383
64	Guthrie Center	$14.04	1,579
65	Alton	$13.87	1,248
66	Montezuma	$13.79	1,421
67	Gilbert	$13.71	1,397
68	Edgewood	$13.64	908
69	Clarksville	$13.53	1,238
70	Avoca	$13.51	1,685
71	Janesville	$13.43	1,052
72	Glidden	$13.43	1,140
73	Calmar	$13.39	1,100
74	Baxter	$13.32	983
75	Wapello	$13.29	2,026
76	Manly	$13.29	1,233
77	Anita	$13.28	953
78	Conrad	$13.23	1,098
79	Springville	$13.22	1,161
80	Shellsburg	$13.20	987
81	De Soto	$13.18	937
82	Greenfield	$13.13	1,988
83	Treynor	$13.03	1,104
84	Odebolt	$13.00	967
85	Akron	$12.93	1,545
86	Leon	$12.93	1,779
87	Danville	$12.87	910
88	Underwood	$12.85	973
89	New Sharon	$12.80	1,249
90	Slater	$12.79	1,626
91	Malvern	$12.79	1,056
92	Buffalo	$12.68	1,163
93	Sanborn	$12.62	1,463
94	New London	$12.56	1,853
95	Dallas Center	$12.42	1,993
96	Hinton	$12.38	959
97	Preston	$12.38	940
98	Remsen	$12.32	1,681
99	Monroe	$12.28	2,021
100	Denver	$12.27	1,955
101	Reinbeck	$12.10	1,673
102	Winfield	$12.04	1,006
103	Elkhart	$12.00	1,079
104	Tabor	$11.88	983
105	Wellman	$11.88	1,531
106	Aurelia	$11.84	970
107	Blue Grass	$11.79	1,707
108	Columbus Junction	$11.71	1,794
109	Palo	$11.49	1,554
110	Prairie City	$11.38	1,722
111	Marcus	$11.31	1,069
112	Mediapolis	$11.27	1,679
113	Melcher-Dallas	$11.21	1,193
114	University Heights	$11.12	1,188
115	Ogden	$10.99	1,970
116	Clarence	$10.94	991
117	Farley	$10.91	1,723
118	Oakland	$10.85	1,519
119	Moville	$10.67	1,707
120	Swisher	$10.39	909
121	Elk Run Heights	$10.33	1,061
122	Walcott	$10.29	1,556
123	Fredericksburg	$10.27	983
124	Lake Park	$10.25	1,155
125	Inwood	$10.22	962
126	Central City	$10.01	1,254
127	Lake View	$9.39	1,120
128	Paullina	$9.21	979
129	Fairbank	$9.00	1,133
130	Walford	$8.72	1,357
131	Keosauqua	$8.58	944
132	Princeton	$8.24	917
133	Lone Tree	$8.13	1,341
134	Riverside	$8.02	1,063
135	Hills	$7.94	911
136	Larchwood	$7.52	954
137	North English	$7.49	1,030
138	Sloan	$7.49	1,078
139	Fruitland	$7.21	928
140	Lawton	$7.10	949
141	Wayland	$7.07	935
142	Arnolds Park	$4.95	1,214

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$714,33493%
Total Employee Benefit Levies$54,8107%

Budget and spending

Where each dollar of Walford’s budget goes, FY26

Where it goes	Of each dollar	Cities this size (141)
Public Works	53¢	12¢
General Government	17¢	7¢
Business Type / Enterprise	13¢	40¢
Public Safety	11¢	10¢
Culture and Recreation	5¢	8¢
Everything else	1¢	3¢

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 141 Iowa cities closest in size (910–2,000 people).

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.

Public Works$895,51355%
General Government$359,07622%
Public Safety$189,65612%
Culture and Recreation$135,4508%
Community and Economic Development$36,5302%

The state’s FY27 file doesn’t include business type / enterprise yet ($213,000 in FY26), so this total is low.

Budget compared with what it spent, FY23

Function	Budget	Spent
Public Works	$1.0M	$734,610
Public Safety	$182,515	$184,494
Health and Social Services	$0	$0
General Government	$277,336	$275,684
Debt Service	$0	$0
Culture and Recreation	$87,555	$51,443
Community and Economic Development	$16,072	$25,976
Capital Projects	$0	$0
Business Type / Enterprise	$199,852	$209,858

What it spent each year

$2.4M

$1.5M

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Elections

Most recent: November 4, 2025

City · 2

Walford City Council At-Large

2 seats: the top 2 win.

Jesse Bergmeier Winner20444.0%
Amy Ellis Winner18539.9%
Sarah Hebert 7516.2%

Walford Mayor

Randy Bauer Winner23184.9%
Russell Hebert 4115.1%

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

Related places

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁴

Charlie McClintock (Sen. 42)Thomas Gerhold (Rep. 84)

U.S. House:District 2

Benton County College schools

Notes

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. ↩
Legislative and congressional districts that cover Walford; percentages are rough shares of its area. These lawmakers write the state laws and budget Walford works within. ↩

Sources: 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.