Hardwood Floor Refinishing in Moville, Iowa

Moville is a small Woodbury County town northeast of Sioux City, in the same county as Sioux City, Sergeant Bluff and Lawton. The U.S. Census Bureau's 2020-2024 American Community Survey puts the town's median year of construction at 1970 (±7 years), among the older medians of the smaller towns in this service area — older than Hinton's or Lawton's, though younger than Sioux City's.

Moville's housing, by the numbers

• Population: 1,707 (Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimate), up from 1,687 at the 2020 Census.
• Housing units: an estimated 641 (ACS 2020-2024, ±87 — a wide relative margin for a town this size; treat the figure as a range).
• Median year built: 1970 (±7).
• Owner-occupied: 80.3% of occupied housing units — the highest owner-occupancy rate of any town in this service area.
• Single-family detached: 87.7% of all housing units — also the highest share of any town covered by this site.

That combination — a median year of construction in 1970, and the highest shares of both owner-occupied and single-family detached housing among the six towns this site covers — points to a town built out substantially by the early 1970s and still made up overwhelmingly of the kind of standalone, owner-occupied homes most likely to have started with solid hardwood flooring rather than an apartment or multi-unit product. A house built in or around 1970 in this region is old enough that solid strip hardwood under a later carpet or vinyl layer is a realistic possibility, not a guarantee.

Moville's own city government website does not publish a history or founding-date page, so this site is not repeating a local historical claim here the way it can for towns with their own documented history pages. What's available and sourced is the Census housing data above, which on its own supports the same general pattern seen in the area's other small towns: a meaningful share of older, owner-occupied housing stock where a specific floor is worth having looked at directly.

What Moville's numbers mean for an estimate

With the highest share of single-family, owner-occupied homes in this service area and a median construction year in 1970, Moville is a town where checking under carpet or an existing floor covering for original hardwood is a reasonable step before assuming a floor needs to be replaced rather than refinished. As with every town this site covers, though, a townwide median describes the distribution as a whole, not any one house — the only way to know what a specific Moville floor needs is to have it looked at directly.

For a look at what a specific Moville floor is made of and whether it's a candidate for sanding and refinishing, call 908-493-5028.