Dixon, Iowa.
Typical home $263,065 (+8.4% in a year). Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$725 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,379 +8%
- $242,687$263,065 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,361 +30%
- $202,705$263,065 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.
- Dixon$1,381
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Dixon, IA rose 8.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dixon, Scott County, Iowa
Dixon is a city of 202 people in Scott County. Unemployment in Scott County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Scott County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dixon is a very small city in Scott County, Iowa, with only a small number of residents. Homes here are valued well below what many older homeowners elsewhere might expect, and a small share of residents live below the poverty line. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places, and the typical commute is a long one, so many residents head out of town for work. Winters are cold, with January highs a little below freezing and lows well under it. Summers are warm, with July the warmest month, and the year brings plenty of snow along with a good amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Across Scott County, the largest workplaces include Arconic Davenport Works, John Deere Davenport Works and Genesis Medical Center - Davenport. Jobs across the county grew over the past year, and unemployment there is slightly lower than a year earlier.
Things to do. Rock Creek runs in or beside town, and Cameron Woods State Preserve, a park, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum is a museum a longer drive away, and the Figge Art Museum is another museum a longer drive away.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
What people in Scott County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Scott County had 92,986 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 40 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lowden weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Scott County
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,718
- Arconic Davenport WorksAluminum ingot, secondary smelting of aluminum and manufacturing2,439
- Davenport Comm School DistrictSchool district2,058FTE
- Tri-City Electric CoElectrical contractors1,967
- Genesis Medical Center - DavenportGeneral hospital1,434FTE
- John Deere Davenport WorksConstruction machinery manufacturing1,144
- Eaton756
- Kraft HeinzMeat products canning made from purchased carcasses650
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 244 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 32,804 people in all across the county; Dixon 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dixon’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Scott County and the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro.
Dixon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dixon$263,065
- 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.
Zip codes with a Dixon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dixon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.