Rapids City, Illinois.
Typical home $246,468 (+9.2% in a year). Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$533 (+70%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,700 +9%
- $225,768$246,468 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,750 +11%
- $222,718$246,468 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.
- Rapids City$1,294
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 34 years.
Typical home values in Rapids City, IL rose 9.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rapids City, Rock Island County, Illinois
Rapids City is a village of 964 people in Rock Island County. Half its households earn more than $83,125 a year and half less, against $67,159 across Rock Island County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rapids City is a small village on the Illinois side of the Mississippi, where almost everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run higher than across Rock Island County, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and summers warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in other services and in shops. Across Rock Island County, some of the largest workplaces are John Deere Harvester Works, Trinity Rock Island and Tyson Fresh Meats. The typical commute is a modest one, and some people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive brings you to Green River and Duck Creek, waterways good for a quiet walk along the bank. Farther afield, Vander Veer Botanical Park is a botanical garden, and the Figge Art Museum is a museum for a rainy afternoon, both a longer drive away. Niabi Zoo, also a longer drive, is a zoo that suits an outing with grandchildren.
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- 414households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 21 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, 3 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; Rapids City 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rapids City’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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.
Rapids City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rapids City$246,468
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Rapids City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rapids City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.