Danville, Iowa.
Typical home $238,514 (+6.6% in a year). Burlington, IA-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$684 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,693 +7%
- $223,821$238,514 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,026 +34%
- $178,488$238,514 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.
- Danville$1,252
- 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 Danville, IA rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Danville, Des Moines County, Iowa
Danville is a city of 927 people in Des Moines County. Half its households earn more than $80,192 a year and half less, against $62,928 across Des Moines County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Des Moines County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Danville is a small city in Des Moines County where most homes are lived in by their owners, a good deal more than across much of the country. Household incomes run well above the county's, and a typical home is valued at a price that reflects that. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades close behind. Across Des Moines County, some of the largest workplaces are Southeast Iowa Regional Medical CTR, Burlington Comm School District and Shearer's Foods - BUR. Most people commute a moderate distance, and very few work from home.
Things to do. Geode State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and suits walking and time outdoors. Community Field, a stadium, is also a short drive off. For a longer outing, Crapo Park, a botanical garden, and the Iowa River are a longer drive away.
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- 350households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Des Moines County had 20,080 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 66°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Burlington Municipal Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Des Moines County
- Southeast Iowa Regional Medical CTRGeneral hospital1,236FTE
- American Ordnance - IowaManufacture of munitions996
- Shearer's Foods - BURCookies manufacturing723
- Burlington Comm School DistrictSchool district604FTE
- Southeastern Community CollegeTwo-year college411
- Tenneco (Federal Mogul, LLC.)Spark plugs for internal combustion engines manufacturing353
- City of BurlingtonLaw enforcement statistics centers, government352
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters327
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 68 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,257 people in all across the county; Danville has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Danville’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 Des Moines County and the Burlington, IA-IL metro.
Danville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Danville$238,514
- 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.
- Danville6
Zip codes with a Danville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Danville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.