Coggon, Iowa.
Typical home $247,907 (+4.3% in a year). Cedar Rapids, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$713 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,229 +4%
- $237,678$247,907 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,964 +33%
- $186,943$247,907 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.
- Coggon$1,301
- 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 Coggon, IA rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Coggon, Linn County, Iowa
Coggon is a city of 701 people in Linn County. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Linn County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Coggon is a very small Iowa city, and nearly every home in it is lived in by its owners, a far larger share of owner-occupied homes than most places. Very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and banking, insurance and property also employing many. The commute is a long one, and a good number of people work from home. Across Linn County, among the largest workplaces are Mercy Medical Center, the Cedar Rapids Comm School District and ST. Lukes Methodist Hospital, and the county's job count slipped slightly in the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Wapsipinicon State Park and Backbone State Park are both protected areas, each a longer drive away. For a day indoors, the Museum of Art Cedar Rapids and the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library are museums, also a longer drive away.
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- 3%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Linn County had 125,508 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Coggon weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Linn County
- Mercy Medical CenterMedical doctors' offices2,692
- Cedar Rapids Comm School DistrictSchool district2,448FTE
- St. Lukes Methodist HospitalGeneral hospital1,897FTE
- Linn-Mar Comm School DistrictSchool district1,161FTE
- College Comm School DistrictSchool district927FTE
- Frito LAYBreakfast cereal manufacturing885
- BAE SystemsSearch and detection systems and instruments manufacturing814
- FedExCourier and express delivery services626
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 380 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 38,500 people in all across the county; Coggon has none 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Coggon’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 Linn County and the Cedar Rapids, IA metro.
Coggon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Coggon$247,907
- 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.
- Coggon6
Zip codes with a Coggon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Coggon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.