Camanche, Iowa.
Typical home $208,786 (+6.6% in a year). Clinton, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$561 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,911 +7%
- $195,876$208,786 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,074 +24%
- $167,712$208,786 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.
- Camanche$1,096
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Camanche, IA rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Camanche, Clinton County, Iowa
Camanche is a city of 4,570 people in Clinton County. Half its households earn more than $64,153 a year and half less, against $66,981 across Clinton County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Clinton County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Camanche is a small city on the Mississippi River side of Clinton County, Iowa, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run a little below the county's, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than across much of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and precipitation falls fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and banks, insurance and property also employing many. Camanche's largest workplaces include Clysar, which makes film and packaging, the Camanche Community School District, and Merrill Steel, a structural steel fabricator. Most people have a moderate commute, and few work from home.
Things to do. Albany Mounds State Historic Site, an archaeological site, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are the Wapsipinicon River and the Bickelhaupt Arboretum, a botanical garden. Those willing to go farther can reach the Figge Art Museum, a longer drive away.
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- 1,845households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clinton County had 18,870 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 65°. About 32 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clinton #1 weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Camanche
- ClysarFilm, plastics, packaging, manufacturing257
- Camanche Comm School DistrictSchool district141FTE
- Merrill SteelStructural steel, fabricated, manufacturing85
- Camanche Trucking Terminal76
- Economy Coating SystemsLocomotive and rail car repair62
- BrandSafway LLC - LyondellBasell Refinery - ClintonSpecialty trade contractors34
- ManattsRoad and highway construction34
- AV TransportationTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 594 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Camanche’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Clinton County and the Clinton, IA metro.
Camanche home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Camanche$208,786
- Iowa$236,623
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Camanche listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Camanche38.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Camanche19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Camanche7
Zip codes with a Camanche address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Camanche — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.