52246
Iowa City, Iowa.
Iowa City, Johnson County, IA · Iowa City, IA metro · population 22,308
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$764 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,722 +3%
- $296,404$304,125 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,726 +26%
- $241,400$304,125 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- 52246$1,596
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in zip 52246 rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in zip 52246 rose 14.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in zip 52246 runs $688/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $921 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,306 a month against $1,619 rent: a $1,596 mortgage payment, plus $384 property tax and $326 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — zip 52246
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,306
- Renting$1,619
- Mortgage only$1,596
Property tax · $384/mo 1.52% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Johnson County, IA
Insurance & upkeep · $326/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Iowa City, IA — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.
Asking rent — 52246
Against the Iowa City, IA metro and the national benchmark.
- 52246$1,619
- Iowa City$1,757
- United States$1,932
Typical home value — 52246
Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 52246$304,125
- Iowa City$300,040
- United States$366,157
Within 20 miles
| Miles sorted ascending, activate to sort descending | Zip activate to sort by Zip | City activate to sort by City | Population activate to sort by Population | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.3 | 52241 | Coralville | 23,250 | $1,282 | $261,319 |
| 4.9 | 52245 | Iowa City | 22,853 | $1,939 | $323,464 |
| 5.2 | 52240 | Iowa City | 35,074 | $1,625 | $277,248 |
| 5.8 | 52340 | Tiffin | 6,128 | $1,771 | $346,635 |
| 6.4 | 52235 | Hills | 974 | — | $241,324 |
| 8.1 | 52317 | North Liberty | 23,097 | $1,808 | $310,498 |
| 9.1 | 52322 | Oxford | 2,266 | — | $368,656 |
| 11.2 | 52247 | Kalona | 5,914 | — | $324,381 |
| 11.9 | 52327 | Riverside | 3,796 | — | $353,345 |
| 12.1 | 52333 | Solon | 7,295 | — | $450,330 |
| 13.7 | 52338 | Swisher | 3,934 | — | $468,550 |
| 14.4 | 52755 | Lone Tree | 2,092 | — | $251,214 |
| 14.6 | 52358 | West Branch | 3,598 | — | $299,340 |
| 15.5 | 52236 | Homestead | 564 | — | $309,347 |
| 17.2 | 52227 | Ely | 2,996 | — | $375,782 |
| 17.3 | 52776 | West Liberty | 5,090 | — | $237,664 |
| 17.5 | 52325 | Parnell | 477 | — | $311,983 |
| 17.7 | 52356 | Wellman | 2,664 | — | $254,159 |
| 18.7 | 52334 | South Amana | 181 | — | $268,512 |
| 18.8 | 52203 | Amana | 2,231 | — | $271,379 |
| 19.4 | 52404 | Cedar Rapids | 42,958 | $1,310 | $205,800 |
| 19.9 | 52351 | Walford | 1,329 | — | $345,393 |
| 20.0 | 52766 | Nichols | 677 | — | $203,673 |
Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.