Clinton, Iowa.
Typical home $135,254 (+6.2% in a year), asking rent $775 . Clinton, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$345 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,837 +6%
- $127,417$135,254 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,459 +21%
- $111,795$135,254 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.
- Clinton$710
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Clinton, IA rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clinton, Clinton County, Iowa
Clinton is a city of 24,469 people in Clinton County. Half its households earn more than $60,230 a year and half less, against $66,981 across Clinton County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Clinton was 5.3% in August 2026, and Clinton County had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clinton is a river city in eastern Iowa, and its people are older than in most American places. Incomes run below the county's, and more households here live below the poverty line than is typical. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and rents are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Manufacturing, schools, hospitals and social care, shops, and restaurants and hotels employ most residents. Archer Daniels Midland Company, MercyOne Clinton Medical Center and the Clinton Community School District are among the largest workplaces in town. Unemployment has eased a little over the past year, though Clinton County has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Commutes are short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Bickelhaupt Arboretum is a botanical garden in or beside town, good for a quiet walk. A short drive away are the Wapsipinicon River and the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre. For a longer outing, Mississippi Palisades State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 10,754households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 5%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, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clinton
- Archer Daniels Midland Company758
- Mercyone Clinton Medical CenterGeneral hospital659FTE
- Clinton Comm School DistrictSchool district554FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters341
- Custom-Pak Group A/Group B/PDC/CorpAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing301
- MercyOne Clinton North Health Plaza-MHS-IA/NEGeneral medical and surgical hospitals225
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores220
- WestRock CPFolding paperboard box manufacturing215
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,401 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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 windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of ClintonRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of ClintonRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of ClintonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clinton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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.
Clinton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clinton$135,254
- 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 4 Clinton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 16 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Clinton23.68%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Clinton16
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Clinton117
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Clinton32
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Clinton$133,983
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Clinton97.25%
Zip codes with a Clinton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clinton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.