Riverside, Iowa.
Typical home $353,104 (+6.2% in a year). Iowa City, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$995 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,555 +6%
- $332,549$353,104 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,620 +33%
- $265,484$353,104 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.
- Riverside$1,853
- 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 Riverside, IA rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Riverside, Washington County, Iowa
Riverside is a city of 1,060 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $84,091 a year and half less, against $75,647 across Washington County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Riverside is a small Iowa city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run higher than across Washington County as a whole. Very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July. Snow and rain both fall through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and banks, insurance and property also common. Across Washington County, the largest workplaces include the Washington Community School District, Washington County Hospital and the Mid-Prairie Community School District. Unemployment in the county is low and has barely changed from a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The English River, Buck Creek and Crooked Creek are all a short drive away, which suits anyone who likes time beside the water. For a longer outing, the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum is a museum in the same direction. Kinnick Stadium is also a longer drive away.
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- 402households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 8,780 jobs in 2025, 2.6% 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 84° and lows near 62°. About 28 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Iowa City weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Washington Comm School DistrictSchool district283FTE
- Washington County HospitalCritical access hospital239FTE
- Mid-Prairie Comm School DistrictSchool district226FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters170
- Farmers Coop AssociationFertilizer application for crops168
- CIVCO Medical Solutions - ManufacturingInstruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing105
- Highland Comm School DistrictSchool district87FTE
- Iowa Bridge & Culvert, LCHighway construction83
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,329 people in all across the county; Riverside 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 windVery high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Riverside’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 Washington County and the Iowa City, IA metro.
Riverside home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Riverside$353,104
- 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.
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.
- Riverside16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Riverside6
Zip codes with a Riverside address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Riverside — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.