Cordova, Illinois.
Typical home $228,683 (+9.8% in a year). Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$552 (+85%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,401 +10%
- $208,281$228,683 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,514 +20%
- $190,169$228,683 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.
- Cordova$1,200
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Cordova, IL rose 9.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cordova, Rock Island County, Illinois
Cordova is a village of 671 people in Rock Island County. Half its households earn more than $84,167 a year and half less, against $67,159 across Rock Island County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Rock Island County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cordova is a small village in Rock Island County, with a population small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well above the county's, with fewer people living below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold, with January highs around freezing, and summers are warm; the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in transport, warehouses and utilities, manufacturing, and the building trades. Across Rock Island County, some of the largest workplaces are John Deere Harvester Works, Trinity Rock Island and Tyson Fresh Meats. The trip to work is a fairly long one, and job numbers across the county have slipped a little over the past year.
Things to do. The Community Building, a theatre in or beside town, is the nearest place for an evening out. A short drive away are the Wapsipinicon River and the Buffalo Bill Cody Homestead, a museum. For a longer outing, the Figge Art Museum and Vander Veer Botanical Park are both a longer drive away.
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- 268households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rock Island County had 69,106 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 66°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Le Claire L&d weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rock Island County
- Tyson Fresh MeatsAnimal slaughtering2,517
- John Deere Harvester WorksCombines manufacturing1,683
- Trinity Rock IslandGeneral hospital1,098FTE
- John Deere North American Parts Distribution CenterGeneral warehousing and storage1,069
- Rock Island SD 41School district1,004FTE
- Moline-Coal Valley CUSD 40School district999FTE
- ConstellationElectric power generation, nuclear711
- John Deere Research & Development Center- SilvisHarvesting machinery and equipment, agriculture, manufacturing673
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 163 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 25,134 people in all across the county; Cordova has none of its own. 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cordova’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Rock Island County and the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro.
Cordova home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cordova$228,683
- Illinois$295,943
- 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.
- Cordova9
Zip codes with a Cordova address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cordova — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.