City

Vincent

$2,470 a yearproperty tax on a $200,000 home here, FY27, for every local government ($29.34 per $1,000 of taxable value)¹

$680 a yearof that goes to the city ($8.09 per $1,000)

$113,302property taxes the city levies, FY27

$182,635city 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.

Alexis WiederinVincent City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Heather WeinerVincent City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Jordon FrakesVincent Mayor · elected November 4, 2025
Justin R. BrenselVincent City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Brian MickelsonVincent City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Donovan AdsonVincent 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 Vincent

The combined rate in most of Vincent is $29.34 per $1,000 of taxable value (FY27). The city sets only its own piece. Estimate your bill.

Eagle Grove schools$12.5343%
City of Vincent$8.0928%
Webster County$6.6623%
Iowa Central Community. College$1.575%
Webster County Assessor$0.331%
Webster County Extension (ISU Extension and Outreach)$0.15<1%

Compared with places this size³

Vincent’s city property tax rate of $8.09 per $1,000 is the 40th lowest of 157 Iowa cities with 80–190 people. The middle of the group is $10.35.

See all 157

#	Place	Rate per $1,000	People
1	Castana	$34.13	103
2	Brayton	$25.07	138
3	Hansell	$23.66	85
4	Harris	$23.13	145
5	Whitten	$22.65	98
6	Soldier	$21.92	176
7	Smithland	$21.12	184
8	Stanley	$20.69	86
9	Coin	$19.59	171
10	Rowan	$19.53	118
11	Chester	$19.30	134
12	Bouton	$19.25	125
13	Ricketts	$19.22	105
14	Garden Grove	$19.20	173
15	Hastings	$18.95	157
16	Swaledale	$18.62	136
17	Derby	$18.13	89
18	Hillsboro	$17.68	158
19	Bristow	$17.39	139
20	Woolstock	$17.26	141
21	Prescott	$16.53	186
22	Monmouth	$16.41	129
23	Blockton	$16.37	123
24	Geneva	$16.25	137
25	Waterville	$16.25	112
26	Little Sioux	$15.74	170
27	Moorhead	$15.68	186
28	Woodburn	$15.59	133
29	Kamrar	$15.47	178
30	Goodell	$15.16	139
31	Marne	$15.03	109
32	Baldwin	$14.91	99
33	Davis City	$14.45	178
34	Lucas	$14.40	176
35	Palmer	$13.89	137
36	Ayrshire	$13.55	128
37	Searsboro	$13.55	129
38	Ferguson	$13.53	98
39	Lanesboro	$13.53	112
40	Calumet	$13.16	144
41	Portsmouth	$13.05	187
42	Delaware	$12.86	139
43	Patterson	$12.84	176
44	Clemons	$12.69	135
45	Cylinder	$12.52	84
46	Millersburg	$12.40	135
47	Aurora	$12.40	165
48	Bridgewater	$12.29	145
49	Arion	$12.14	99
50	Webb	$12.10	139
51	Decatur	$12.08	174
52	Shambaugh	$11.98	161
53	Lone Rock	$11.92	143
54	East Peru	$11.89	119
55	Henderson	$11.85	140
56	Reasnor	$11.76	157
57	Morley	$11.74	94
58	Ledyard	$11.74	118
59	Toronto	$11.68	101
60	Exline	$11.60	157
61	Beaman	$11.54	155
62	College Springs	$11.44	172
63	Melrose	$11.27	110
64	Linn Grove	$11.15	155
65	Promise City	$11.13	91
66	Randolph	$11.08	183
67	Leighton	$11.07	153
68	Rake	$11.05	179
69	Masonville	$11.00	98
70	Somers	$10.99	121
71	Havelock	$10.95	127
72	Alexander	$10.90	165
73	Lambs Grove	$10.78	174
74	Wallingford	$10.75	154
75	Woden	$10.68	183
76	Pacific Junction	$10.56	99
77	Barnes City	$10.44	152
78	Stockton	$10.37	171
79	Randall	$10.35	156
80	Meriden	$10.28	175
81	Drakesville	$10.24	170
82	North Washington	$10.23	107
83	Dawson	$10.19	110
84	Barnum	$9.96	186
85	Hartwick	$9.90	91
86	Clare	$9.81	133
87	Tingley	$9.81	146
88	Rutland	$9.65	116
89	Van Wert	$9.62	175
90	Rock Falls	$9.61	143
91	Kirkville	$9.59	159
92	Superior	$9.58	127
93	Webster	$9.55	94
94	Martinsburg	$9.49	109
95	Larrabee	$9.41	116
96	Hamilton	$9.35	125
97	Wiota	$9.32	91
98	Floris	$9.29	119
99	Mitchell	$9.22	118
100	Westphalia	$9.18	133
101	Elberon	$9.16	178
102	Blairsburg	$8.93	175
103	Prairieburg	$8.91	156
104	Welton	$8.86	124
105	Archer	$8.84	116
106	Luther	$8.83	147
107	Fraser	$8.81	107
108	Macksburg	$8.81	103
109	Moorland	$8.61	169
110	Pilot Mound	$8.54	155
111	Thor	$8.38	182
112	Andover	$8.28	106
113	Thurman	$8.26	162
114	Boxholm	$8.11	177
115	Rome	$8.10	112
116	Carpenter	$8.10	92
117	Westfield	$8.10	121
118	Vincent	$8.09	125
119	Morrison	$7.86	101
120	Mount Auburn	$7.86	162
121	Haverhill	$7.86	164
122	Oyens	$7.86	88
123	Olds	$7.86	174
124	Dickens	$7.86	146
125	Castalia	$7.86	141
126	Rose Hill	$7.86	156
127	West Chester	$7.82	147
128	Cromwell	$7.81	104
129	Mcclelland	$7.79	147
130	Arispe	$7.71	95
131	Luzerne	$7.69	111
132	Lidderdale	$7.68	162
133	Westwood	$7.67	96
134	Bernard	$7.56	117
135	Braddyville	$7.49	142
136	Franklin	$7.31	133
137	Spragueville	$7.20	92
138	Weldon	$7.18	134
139	Brunsville	$6.95	128
140	Zwingle	$6.93	86
141	Packwood	$6.77	186
142	Houghton	$6.73	129
143	Williamson	$6.72	126
144	Lincoln	$6.32	119
145	Gravity	$6.18	149
146	Ackworth	$5.90	117
147	Oakland Acres	$5.88	178
148	Springbrook	$5.79	145
149	Maysville	$5.77	155
150	Harper	$5.29	117
151	Panorama Park	$4.62	142
152	Keomah Village	$3.15	107
153	Mcintire	$2.78	115
154	Sherrill	$2.66	176
155	Centralia	$2.41	117
156	New Liberty	$2.27	141
157	North Buena Vista	$1.78	107

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$111,84399%
Support of a Local Emerg. Mgmt. Comm.$8481%
Total Employee Benefit Levies$2090%

Budget and spending

Where each dollar of Vincent’s budget goes, FY26

Where it goes	Of each dollar	Cities this size (157)
General Government	38¢	24¢
Business Type / Enterprise	25¢	25¢
Public Works	19¢	27¢
Public Safety	9¢	10¢
Culture and Recreation	7¢	8¢
Everything else	2¢	2¢

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 157 Iowa cities closest in size (80–190 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.

General Government$89,47149%
Public Works$44,29324%
Culture and Recreation$24,77114%
Public Safety$21,60012%
Community and Economic Development$2,5001%

The state’s FY27 file doesn’t include business type / enterprise yet ($58,803 in FY26), so this total is low.

Budget compared with what it spent, FY23

Function	Budget	Spent
Public Works	$40,900	$40,100
Public Safety	$22,469	$16,649
Health and Social Services	$2,000	$0
General Government	$79,455	$175,917
Debt Service	$0	$0
Culture and Recreation	$24,000	$10,822
Community and Economic Development	$2,500	$1,285
Capital Projects	$0	$0
Business Type / Enterprise	$47,700	$43,114

What it spent each year

$433,400

$287,887

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State money

What the state sends the city

Sales tax and property tax credits the state paid the city: up 6% since FY23; down 3% after inflation.

In today's dollarsActual dollars

Show the numbers

Program	FY27	FY26	FY25	FY24	FY23
Local option sales tax	$2,417	$30,620	$29,250	$30,086	$28,983

Elections

Most recent: November 4, 2025

City · 2

Vincent City Council At-Large

3 seats: the top 3 win.

Alexis Wiederin Winner2634.2%
Justin R. Brensel Winner2431.6%
Heather Weiner Winner1418.4%
Leon Hawke 1215.8%

Vincent Mayor

Jordon Frakes Unopposed28100.0%

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

Related places

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁴

Tim Kraayenbrink (Sen. 4)Ann Meyer (Rep. 8)

U.S. House:District 4

Webster County Eagle Grove 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 Vincent; percentages are rough shares of its area. These lawmakers write the state laws and budget Vincent 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.