City

Corwith

$2,850 a yearproperty tax on a $200,000 home here, FY27, for every local government ($33.84 per $1,000 of taxable value)¹

$1,370 a yearof that goes to the city ($16.22 per $1,000)

$182,904property taxes the city levies, FY27

$263,655city 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.

Matt HobscheidtCorwith Mayor · elected November 4, 2025
Sharon SpellinsCorwith City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Spencer HankinsCorwith City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Kimberly MullenbachCorwith City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Michele GarmanCorwith City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Michelle HankinsCorwith 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

How the bill is collected · What each levy is for

Who gets a property owner’s tax bill in Corwith

Homes and businesses in most of Corwith pay a combined $33.84 per $1,000 of taxable value (FY27). They pay it all to the Hancock County treasurer, who passes each government its share; the city sets and gets only its own piece, $16.22. Estimate your bill.

City of Corwith$16.2248%
Everyone else$13.6240%
Hancock County$4.0012%

Rates over time

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

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$30.38	$15.23
FY21	$30.61	$15.25
FY22	$28.77	$13.89
FY23	$30.23	$14.71
FY24	$30.69	$14.22
FY25	$35.27	$18.35
FY26	$34.93	$17.59
FY27	$33.84	$16.22

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Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$30.38	$15.23
FY21	$30.61	$15.25
FY22	$28.77	$13.89
FY23	$30.23	$14.71
FY24	$30.69	$14.22
FY25	$35.27	$18.35
FY26	$34.93	$17.59
FY27	$33.84	$16.22

Compared with places this size³

Corwith’s city property tax rate of $16.22 per $1,000 is the 32nd highest of 212 Iowa cities with 170–390 people. The middle of the group is $12.03.

See all 212

#	Place	Rate per $1,000	People
1	Stanhope	$29.10	354
2	Fenton	$22.05	250
3	Soldier	$21.92	176
4	Coulter	$21.80	220
5	Chelsea	$21.61	207
6	Elliott	$21.61	328
7	Smithland	$21.12	184
8	Volga	$20.23	200
9	Alta Vista	$19.88	219
10	Arthur	$19.86	218
11	Garden Grove	$19.20	173
12	Fort Atkinson	$19.19	300
13	Salem	$19.15	380
14	Cumberland	$18.42	248
15	Jamaica	$18.24	196
16	Massena	$18.23	352
17	Callender	$17.78	361
18	Casey	$17.72	387
19	Vail	$17.66	383
20	Ringsted	$17.65	346
21	Pierson	$17.12	335
22	Pisgah	$17.09	248
23	Lohrville	$16.95	366
24	Lakota	$16.84	261
25	Marble Rock	$16.78	258
26	Auburn	$16.65	253
27	Mccallsburg	$16.58	356
28	Prescott	$16.53	186
29	Irwin	$16.46	320
30	Montour	$16.37	199
31	Lewis	$16.25	358
32	Corwith	$16.22	259
33	Deep River	$16.18	243
34	Waucoma	$16.17	235
35	Duncombe	$16.10	374
36	Granville	$16.00	302
37	Minburn	$15.75	317
38	Moorhead	$15.68	186
39	Onslow	$15.63	198
40	Linden	$15.62	206
41	Kamrar	$15.47	178
42	Peterson	$15.27	321
43	Greeley	$15.23	216
44	Riverton	$14.94	243
45	Marathon	$14.89	221
46	Ryan	$14.84	348
47	Ladora	$14.74	223
48	Magnolia	$14.68	194
49	Bagley	$14.63	230
50	Davis City	$14.45	178
51	Lucas	$14.40	176
52	Garrison	$14.38	345
53	Halbur	$14.37	268
54	Lorimor	$14.36	377
55	Crystal Lake	$14.36	243
56	Kimballton	$14.27	281
57	Steamboat Rock	$14.19	261
58	Westgate	$14.05	190
59	Mystic	$14.01	318
60	Wesley	$13.91	382
61	Diagonal	$13.91	331
62	Bussey	$13.83	378
63	Mondamin	$13.82	335
64	Livermore	$13.78	382
65	Fertile	$13.70	300
66	Stockport	$13.68	272
67	Kellerton	$13.60	241
68	Quimby	$13.58	245
69	Meservey	$13.43	212
70	Persia	$13.41	292
71	Lacona	$13.38	336
72	Leland	$13.31	240
73	Ute	$13.26	326
74	New Market	$13.25	381
75	Plymouth	$13.21	368
76	Harcourt	$13.21	257
77	Bennett	$13.16	330
78	Ridgeway	$13.10	261
79	Farmersburg	$13.09	264
80	Portsmouth	$13.05	187
81	Clutier	$13.03	209
82	Menlo	$12.92	347
83	Templeton	$12.91	337
84	Silver City	$12.87	244
85	Patterson	$12.84	176
86	Martelle	$12.83	250
87	Malcom	$12.82	257
88	Blencoe	$12.57	223
89	Williams	$12.57	299
90	Maurice	$12.56	271
91	Clearfield	$12.50	277
92	Kensett	$12.47	256
93	Mccausland	$12.45	314
94	Spillville	$12.40	371
95	Modale	$12.34	284
96	Mingo	$12.31	314
97	Brandon	$12.29	331
98	Blakesburg	$12.21	273
99	Cushing	$12.18	225
100	Bonaparte	$12.17	357
101	Hanlontown	$12.17	200
102	Stout	$12.14	194
103	Macedonia	$12.12	266
104	Paton	$12.09	217
105	Decatur	$12.08	174
106	Kiron	$12.03	262
107	Rembrandt	$12.03	199
108	Colesburg	$11.97	379
109	Liscomb	$11.96	292
110	New Providence	$11.88	233
111	Parnell	$11.78	190
112	Joice	$11.72	206
113	Atalissa	$11.71	287
114	Cantril	$11.69	224
115	Kelley	$11.69	312
116	Orient	$11.66	363
117	Wadena	$11.65	201
118	Cincinnati	$11.57	280
119	Delta	$11.52	257
120	Terril	$11.48	310
121	Westside	$11.45	283
122	Holland	$11.37	261
123	Churdan	$11.31	359
124	Mallard	$11.28	255
125	Renwick	$11.16	228
126	Dundee	$11.14	193
127	Randolph	$11.08	183
128	Rake	$11.05	179
129	Frederika	$10.99	206
130	New Vienna	$10.91	384
131	Letts	$10.91	358
132	Goose Lake	$10.89	250
133	Birmingham	$10.87	371
134	Charlotte	$10.86	386
135	Yale	$10.85	265
136	Lambs Grove	$10.78	174
137	Hornick	$10.74	255
138	Woden	$10.68	183
139	Riverdale	$10.67	385
140	Bode	$10.64	304
141	Union	$10.58	378
142	Cleghorn	$10.49	235
143	Calamus	$10.47	348
144	Danbury	$10.43	315
145	Lytton	$10.38	274
146	Rhodes	$10.36	269
147	Dedham	$10.28	221
148	Deloit	$10.28	246
149	Protivin	$10.28	264
150	Meriden	$10.28	175
151	Andrew	$10.22	374
152	Royal	$10.20	379
153	Bronson	$10.14	294
154	Hancock	$10.13	199
155	Rudd	$10.13	339
156	La Motte	$10.09	235
157	Melvin	$10.05	196
158	Defiance	$10.05	248
159	Floyd	$10.02	297
160	Barnum	$9.96	186
161	Panama	$9.85	234
162	Grafton	$9.83	212
163	Lynnville	$9.68	382
164	Ionia	$9.65	220
165	Salix	$9.63	303
166	Van Wert	$9.62	175
167	Luxemburg	$9.58	240
168	Rippey	$9.42	217
169	Farnhamville	$9.18	364
170	Elberon	$9.16	178
171	Middletown	$9.16	365
172	Dixon	$9.03	204
173	Lester	$8.94	309
174	Blairsburg	$8.93	175
175	Oakville	$8.89	198
176	Harvey	$8.71	242
177	Washta	$8.65	206
178	Ollie	$8.44	196
179	Thor	$8.38	182
180	Rowley	$8.31	264
181	South English	$8.27	196
182	Boxholm	$8.11	177
183	Fostoria	$8.10	229
184	Low Moor	$8.10	242
185	Bertram	$8.10	267
186	Nichols	$8.10	317
187	Laurel	$8.10	214
188	Lineville	$8.10	194
189	Luana	$7.98	303
190	Lockridge	$7.92	245
191	Grand River	$7.86	192
192	Olds	$7.86	174
193	Pulaski	$7.58	259
194	Sheldahl	$7.56	312
195	Fredonia	$7.55	227
196	Worthington	$7.50	374
197	Harpers Ferry	$7.49	273
198	Alvord	$7.41	216
199	Columbus City	$6.94	385
200	Donahue	$6.83	336
201	Packwood	$6.77	186
202	Libertyville	$6.60	278
203	Keswick	$6.49	238
204	Crawfordsville	$6.44	278
205	Holy Cross	$5.91	348
206	Oakland Acres	$5.88	178
207	Conesville	$5.86	350
208	Maharishi Vedic City	$3.87	290
209	Wahpeton	$3.19	337
210	West Okoboji	$2.92	311
211	Sherrill	$2.66	176
212	Rickardsville	$2.27	204

The $8.10 limit

Corwith’s general levy is $8.16 per $1,000 of taxable value in FY27, $0.06 above the limit; it has to come down in steps.⁴ 171 of 934 Iowa cities have a higher general levy. All cities.

$8.10

FY23 $8.10 · FY24 $8.10 · FY25 $8.33 · FY26 $8.33 · FY27 $8.16 (before FY25, the general levy alone)

Outside the limit: $8.06 more⁵

Debt Service Levy$3.95 · $43,728
Liability, property & self insurance costs$2.70 · $29,855
Total Employee Benefit Levies$1.41 · $15,544

Tax increment financing (TIF)

Corwith’s TIF revenue, from its reports to the state.

$104,361

$93,464

Year	TIF revenue
FY16	$104,361
FY17	$87,691
FY18	$90,028
FY19	$94,474
FY20	$94,601
FY21	$93,464

Show the numbers

Year	TIF revenue
FY16	$104,361
FY17	$87,691
FY18	$90,028
FY19	$94,474
FY20	$94,601
FY21	$93,464

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$90,28450%
Debt Service Levy$43,72824%
Liability, property & self insurance costs$29,85517%
Total Employee Benefit Levies$15,5449%

Budget and spending

Reading a local budget

Where each dollar of Corwith’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 210 Iowa cities closest in size (170–390 people).

Where it goes	Of each dollar	Cities this size (210)
Business Type / Enterprise	69¢	36¢
General Government	11¢	18¢
Culture and Recreation	7¢	8¢
Debt Service	5¢	3¢
Public Safety	4¢	9¢
Everything else	3¢	23¢

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$90,79534%
Culture and Recreation$65,92025%
Debt Service$43,94017%
Public Safety$39,61015%
Public Works$20,3208%
Health and Social Services$1,7951%
Community and Economic Development$1,2750%

The state’s FY27 file doesn’t include business type / enterprise yet ($582,665 in FY26), so this total is low.

Budget compared with what it spent, FY23

Function	Budget	Spent
Public Works	$21,700	$33,573
Public Safety	$70,790	$71,317
Health and Social Services	$0	$0
General Government	$91,705	$129,759
Debt Service	$18,833	$18,763
Culture and Recreation	$62,050	$53,258
Community and Economic Development	$51,000	$46,093
Capital Projects	$0	$30,784
Business Type / Enterprise	$607,470	$581,240

What it spent each year

FY24 left out⁶

$1.2M

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? ⁷

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: $27,960 in FY25, down 21% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 37% less. Grants are below.

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Source	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25
Road Use Tax (streets)	$22,205	$22,386	$23,056	$23,181
Commercial and industrial tax replacement (“backfill”)	$7,646	$6,690	$5,734	$4,779

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.

$18,989

$1,271

State grants$1,271100%

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$369
FY20	$0
FY21	$0
FY22	$18,989
FY23	$18,989
FY24	$1,294
FY25	$1,271

Show the numbers

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$369
FY20	$0
FY21	$0
FY22	$18,989
FY23	$18,989
FY24	$1,294
FY25	$1,271

Has it kept up with prices?

Each source from FY19 to FY25, after inflation.

Road Use Tax (streets)−21%$23,423 → $23,181, down 1% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 21% less
Commercial and industrial tax replacement (“backfill”)−68%$12,045 → $4,779, down 60% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 68% 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 19% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 5% less.

$44,756

$39,619

Federal grants, for comparison: $470,058 in FY25.

Elections

Most recent: November 4, 2025

City · 2

Corwith City Council At-Large

2 seats: the top 2 win.

Sharon Spellins Winner3936.1%
Spencer Hankins Winner3734.3%
Scott A Peterson 3229.6%

Corwith Mayor

Matt Hobscheidt Unopposed53100.0%

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

Related places

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁸

Dennis Guth (Sen. 28)Mark I. Thompson (Rep. 56)

U.S. House:District 4

Hancock CountyCorwith-Wesley 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. ↩
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. ↩
Levies outside the limit are each set aside for one purpose and have their own rules: debt service pays back bonds voters or the council approved, employee benefits cover pensions and insurance, and some (transit, an airport, insurance costs) have their own caps in state law. ↩
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 Corwith; percentages are rough shares of its area. These lawmakers write the state laws and budget Corwith 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.

Corwith

Who runs it

Meetings and agendas

Property taxes

Who gets a property owner’s tax bill in Corwith

Rates over time

Compared with places this size3

The $8.10 limit

Outside the limit: $8.06 more5

Tax increment financing (TIF)

The city’s levies, FY27

Budget and spending

Where each dollar of Corwith’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 Congress8

Compared with places this size³

Outside the limit: $8.06 more⁵

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁸