Wilton, Iowa.
Typical home $230,753 (+5.1% in a year). Muscatine, IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$633 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,281 +5%
- $219,473$230,753 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,106 +27%
- $181,647$230,753 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.
- Wilton$1,211
- Iowa$1,242
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Wilton, IA rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wilton, Cedar County, Iowa
Wilton is a city of 2,924 people in Cedar County. Half its households earn more than $76,648 a year and half less, against $80,602 across Cedar County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Cedar County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cedar County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wilton is a small city in Cedar County, Iowa, where most homes are lived in by their owners and a typical home costs somewhat less than what many people expect to pay elsewhere. Household incomes are a little below the county's, and a modest share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, summers turn properly warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. The Wilton Comm School District is among the biggest workplaces in town, along with CDS Global Wilton, a print and digital operation, and Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative, which distributes electric power. Commutes are of a moderate length, and few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Wildcat Den State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Cedar River is a river that is also a longer drive away. History lovers can head to the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, a museum that is a longer drive away as well. Art is within reach too at the Figge Art Museum, another museum a longer drive from town.
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- 1,365households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Cedar County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cedar County had 5,205 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 29 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Muscatine 2N weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wilton
- Wilton Comm School DistrictSchool district124FTE
- CDS Global WiltonPrint shops, digital123
- Eastern Iowa Light and Power CooperativeDistribution of electric power87
- jm eagle pwiManufacture ovc pipe29
- Industrial PackagingCorrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard25
- Micro Surface FinishingAbrasive products manufacturing21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 285 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
- Strong windVery high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wilton’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 Cedar County and the Muscatine, IA metro.
Wilton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wilton$230,753
- 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.
- Wilton11
Zip codes with a Wilton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wilton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.