Solon, Iowa.
Typical home $450,135 (+2.4% in a year). Iowa City, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,181 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,408 +2%
- $439,727$450,135 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $92,186 +26%
- $357,948$450,135 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.
- Solon$2,363
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Solon, IA rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Solon, Johnson County, Iowa
Solon is a city of 3,018 people in Johnson County. Half its households earn more than $113,295 a year and half less, against $74,935 across Johnson County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Johnson County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Solon is a small city in Johnson County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and where household incomes run well above the county's. Few residents live below the poverty line, and a four-year degree is common among adults. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers turn warm in July, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops and the building trades also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Solon are the Solon Comm School District, Better Living Healthcare Services and E&J Electric. The typical commute is short, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Macbride State Park is a park a short drive away, and Hickory Hill Park is a protected natural area, also a short drive off. For indoor outings, the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art is a museum a short drive away, while the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum is a longer drive. Mill Creek runs in or beside town.
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- 1,144households
- 42%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Johnson County had 85,623 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Iowa City Municipal Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Solon
- Better Living Healthcare Services308
- Solon Comm School DistrictSchool district188FTE
- E&J ElectricElectrical, electrical wiring, and low voltage electrical work24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 332 people in all. School districts come 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Solon’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 Johnson County and the Iowa City, IA metro.
Solon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Solon$450,135
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Solon listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Solon24.00%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Solon46
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Solon7
Zip codes with a Solon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Solon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.