Bellevue, Iowa.
Typical home $316,121 (+5.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$927 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,702 +6%
- $298,419$316,121 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,993 +33%
- $237,128$316,121 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.
- Bellevue$1,659
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Bellevue, IA rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bellevue, Jackson County, Iowa
Bellevue is a city of 2,363 people in Jackson County. Half its households earn more than $79,417 a year and half less, against $74,186 across Jackson County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Jackson County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Bellevue is a small city on the Mississippi River in Jackson County, Iowa. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run above the county's. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than not, and the winters are cold and snowy, with a warm summer in July.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with banks, insurance and property, manufacturing and shops also employing many. Across Jackson County, some of the largest workplaces are the Bellevue Comm School District, Jackson County Public Hospital and Walmart. The trip to work is short for most people, and the county has seen a small drop in jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Bellevue State Park is in or beside town, and Mill Creek runs there too. A short drive away are the Maquoketa River and Chestnut Mountain, a ski area that suits the snowy winters. For a longer outing, the Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical Gardens are a longer drive away.
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- 883households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 5,754 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 32 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bellevue L&d weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Family Dollar, LLC DC206General warehousing and storage237
- Maquoketa Comm School DistrictSchool district223FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters194
- HUSCO International MaquoketaValves, hydraulic and pneumatic, fluid power, manufacturing117
- Jackson County Public HospitalCritical access hospital109FTE
- Bellevue Comm School DistrictSchool district96FTE
- Plastics UnlimitedAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing90
- Imagine the PossibilitiesJob training, vocational rehabilitation or habilitation88
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,459 people in all across the county; Bellevue has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Strong windVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bellevue’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Jackson County.
Bellevue home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bellevue$316,121
- Iowa$236,623
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bellevue14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bellevue5
Zip codes with a Bellevue address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bellevue — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Bellevue
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52031 | Bellevue | 5,403 | — | $317,330 |
| 52054 | La Motte | 794 | — | $365,229 |