Walcott, Iowa.
Typical home $297,714 (+7.3% in a year). Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$853 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,175 +7%
- $277,539$297,714 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,296 +35%
- $220,418$297,714 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.
- Walcott$1,563
- 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 Walcott, IA rose 7.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Walcott, Scott County, Iowa
Walcott is a city of 1,551 people in Scott County. Half its households earn more than $78,580 a year and half less, against $78,277 across Scott County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Walcott is a small Iowa city in Scott County, and it is a place where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than in many towns of its size. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July; the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Walcott are Atlantic Bottling Company, Needham Excavating and BLM Better Living of Walcott. The typical trip to work is short, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Wildcat Den State Park is a protected natural area, and Emeis Park and Golf Course offers a park with a golf course. Farther afield, the Figge Art Museum is an art museum and Vander Veer Botanical Park is a botanical garden, both a longer drive away.
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- 729households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 7%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 84° and lows near 64°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Davenport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Walcott
- Atlantic Bottling CompanyBeverages, soft drink, manufacturing168
- Needham ExcavatingExcavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors31
- BLM Better Living of Walcott22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 221 people in all. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Walcott’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.
Walcott home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Walcott$297,714
- 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.
- Walcott6
Zip codes with a Walcott address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Walcott — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.