Robins, Iowa.
Typical home $409,638 (+3.7% in a year). Cedar Rapids, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,059 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,495 +4%
- $395,142$409,638 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,317 +19%
- $343,321$409,638 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.
- Robins$2,150
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Robins, IA rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Robins, Linn County, Iowa
Robins is a city of 3,353 people in Linn County. Half its households earn more than $122,262 a year and half less, against $77,649 across Linn County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Linn County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Robins is a small city in Linn County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, far more than across most of the country. Incomes run well above the county's, relatively few residents live below the poverty line, and most adults have a four-year degree. The population skews older than much of the county, and typical home values are high.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by banks, insurance and property, shops, and professional and business services. Across Linn County, some of the largest workplaces are Mercy Medical Center, the Cedar Rapids Comm School District and ST. Lukes Methodist Hospital. Commutes are short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Museum of Art Cedar Rapids and the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library are both museums a short drive away, and the Paramount Theatre is a theatre a short drive away as well. For time outdoors, Hanging Bog State Preserve is a park a short drive away. Winters here are cold and snowy, with January highs near freezing, while summers turn warm in July.
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- 1,154households
- 59%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 21%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Linn County had 125,508 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 34 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cedar Rapids #1 weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Linn County
- Mercy Medical CenterMedical doctors' offices2,692
- Cedar Rapids Comm School DistrictSchool district2,448FTE
- St. Lukes Methodist HospitalGeneral hospital1,897FTE
- Linn-Mar Comm School DistrictSchool district1,161FTE
- College Comm School DistrictSchool district927FTE
- Frito LAYBreakfast cereal manufacturing885
- BAE SystemsSearch and detection systems and instruments manufacturing814
- FedExCourier and express delivery services626
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 380 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 38,500 people in all across the county; Robins 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
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Robins’ 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 Linn County and the Cedar Rapids, IA metro.
Robins home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Robins$409,638
- 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.
- Robins9
Zip codes with a Robins address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Robins — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.