Princeton, Iowa.
Typical home $338,066 (+6.1% in a year). Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$914 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,583 +6%
- $318,483$338,066 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,570 +28%
- $264,497$338,066 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.
- Princeton$1,774
- 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 Princeton, IA rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Princeton, Scott County, Iowa
Princeton is a city of 923 people in Scott County. Half its households earn more than $87,188 a year and half less, against $78,277 across Scott County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. 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 residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Princeton is a small city on the Mississippi River side of Scott County, Iowa. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run above the county's, with few residents living below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January highs hovering near freezing and nights well below it, while July turns warm; rain and melted snow fall at a moderate rate through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in the building trades. Across Scott County, some of the largest workplaces are John Deere Davenport Works, Genesis Medical Center - Davenport and the Davenport Community School District. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Buffalo Bill Cody Homestead, a museum, and the Wapsipinicon River are both a short drive away. The Community Building, a theatre, is in or beside town. For a longer outing, the Figge Art Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 343households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents 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 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, 7 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; Princeton 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Princeton’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 Scott County and the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro.
Princeton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Princeton$338,066
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Princeton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Princeton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.