De Witt, Iowa.
Typical home $243,184 (+6.1% in a year). Clinton, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$658 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,943 +6%
- $229,241$243,184 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,673 +28%
- $190,511$243,184 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.
- De Witt$1,276
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in De Witt, IA rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in De Witt, Clinton County, Iowa
De Witt is a city of 5,514 people in Clinton County. Half its households earn more than $92,587 a year and half less, against $66,981 across Clinton County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. De Witt is a small city in Clinton County, Iowa, where households earn more than across the county as a whole and very few live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population is of middle age, with a good share of adults holding a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and transport and warehousing also employing a good number. The biggest workplaces in De Witt include the Central DeWitt School District, Guardian Industries, a flat glass manufacturer, and Genesis Medical Center - Dewitt, a critical access hospital. Jobs across Clinton County dipped last year, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year ago. Most people have a commute of moderate length, and few work from home.
Things to do. The Buffalo Bill Cody Homestead, a museum, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Figge Art Museum, to Vander Veer Botanical Park, a botanical garden, and to Maquoketa Caves State Park, a protected area. The Wapsipinicon River is also within a longer drive for time by the water.
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- 2,177households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 6%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, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in De Witt
- Central DeWitt School DistrictSchool district243FTE
- Custom-Pak DeWittAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing215
- Guardian IndustriesFlat glass manufacturing205
- WellSpireNursing homes129
- Genesis Medical Center - DewittCritical access hospital95FTE
- City of DeWittExecutive offices, federal, state, and local56
- Latham Pool ProductsFiberglass pool manufacturing37
- Imagine the PossibilitiesJob counseling, vocational rehabilitation or habilitation28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 852 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 De Witt’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 Clinton County and the Clinton, IA metro.
De Witt home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- De Witt$243,184
- 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 2 De Witt 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.
- De Witt43.85%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- De Witt23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- De Witt10
Zip codes with a De Witt address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls De Witt — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.