Eastern Iowa City Ranks As 5th Worst Small Real Estate Market For 2025

If you've noticed the housing market stinks lately, there's a specific reason why in Davenport.

One of my favorite things to do is scroll through Zillow and look at all of the neat houses I'll never be able to afford. It's no secret the housing market as a whole has been messy, but that's especially true of Davenport.

New data from WalletHub looked at the best real estate markets, of multiple sizes, in the country. They compared the 300 locales and looked at 17 metrics that were divided into 2 main categories:

• Real Estate Market (which included metrics like home value forecast, median home-price appreciation, and more)
• Affordability and Economic Environment (which looked at things like home affordability, job growth rate, etc.)

So if 1 is the Best and 150 is average, let's review Davenport's stats. In individual metrics, Davenport ranked:

• 271^st – Share of Seriously Underwater Mortgages
• 174^th – Median Days on the Market
• 283^rd – Median Home-Price Appreciation
• 282^nd – Job Growth Rate
• 260^th – Foreclosure Rate
• 239^th – % of Delinquent Mortgage Holders
• 150^th – Maintenance Costs as % of Income

Overall, Davenport ranked 286^th overall and 129^th among small cities.

So it's not looking good.

Cedar Rapids beat Davenport in the small cities category, coming in at #115. Des Moines also ranked higher than Davenport in their category, mid-size cities, at number 90.

However, ranked right below Davenport in the worst small real estate markets was Peoria. So we're not the worst in the Midwest. Then under them: Flint, Michigan, Miami Beach, and Jackson, Mississippi.