State or territory · Census 2020–2024
Median rent and rent burden in Iowa
- Median monthly gross rent
- $972 ± $6 margin
- Rent burden · 30% or more
- 43.9% ± 0.7 percentage points
- Severe burden · 50% or more
- 21.8% ± 0.5 percentage points
How much income would keep this rent at 30%?
The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $38,880. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.
Compare with broader areas
| Area | Median gross rent ± margin | Rent burden | Severe burden |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | $972 ± $6 | 43.9% | 21.8% |
| United States | $1,413 ± $2 | 51.1% | 25.9% |
Browse counties in Iowa
- Adair County$799 median gross rent · 33.2% rent burden
- Adams County$893 median gross rent · 39.2% rent burden
- Allamakee County$796 median gross rent · 36.2% rent burden
- Appanoose County$784 median gross rent · 46.5% rent burden
- Audubon County$759 median gross rent · 50.9% rent burden
- Benton County$826 median gross rent · 35.1% rent burden
- Black Hawk County$989 median gross rent · 48.9% rent burden
- Boone County$845 median gross rent · 37.6% rent burden
- Bremer County$921 median gross rent · 33.2% rent burden
- Buchanan County$848 median gross rent · 36.8% rent burden
- Buena Vista County$894 median gross rent · 29.9% rent burden
- Butler County$812 median gross rent · 37.9% rent burden
- Calhoun County$723 median gross rent · 35.2% rent burden
- Carroll County$731 median gross rent · 36% rent burden
- Cass County$777 median gross rent · 48.9% rent burden
- Cedar County$879 median gross rent · 49.7% rent burden
- Cerro Gordo County$850 median gross rent · 34.6% rent burden
- Cherokee County$758 median gross rent · 48.4% rent burden
- Chickasaw County$738 median gross rent · 29.6% rent burden
- Clarke County$931 median gross rent · 44.4% rent burden
- Clay County$811 median gross rent · 36.4% rent burden
- Clayton County$790 median gross rent · 45.9% rent burden
- Clinton County$850 median gross rent · 47.6% rent burden
- Crawford County$743 median gross rent · 33.5% rent burden
- Dallas County$1,311 median gross rent · 36.7% rent burden
- Davis County$868 median gross rent · 25.1% rent burden
- Decatur County$611 median gross rent · 30.4% rent burden
- Delaware County$764 median gross rent · 46.7% rent burden
- Des Moines County$904 median gross rent · 51.4% rent burden
- Dickinson County$922 median gross rent · 39.5% rent burden
- Dubuque County$959 median gross rent · 45.8% rent burden
- Emmet County$733 median gross rent · 38.3% rent burden
- Fayette County$881 median gross rent · 44.1% rent burden
- Floyd County$745 median gross rent · 43.9% rent burden
- Franklin County$696 median gross rent · 33% rent burden
- Fremont County$746 median gross rent · 24.6% rent burden
- Greene County$781 median gross rent · 32.4% rent burden
- Grundy County$774 median gross rent · 27.4% rent burden
- Guthrie County$845 median gross rent · 43.1% rent burden
- Hamilton County$877 median gross rent · 31.6% rent burden
- Hancock County$736 median gross rent · 39.6% rent burden
- Hardin County$795 median gross rent · 41.5% rent burden
- Harrison County$849 median gross rent · 31.6% rent burden
- Henry County$820 median gross rent · 38.9% rent burden
- Howard County$713 median gross rent · 27.4% rent burden
- Humboldt County$744 median gross rent · 34.4% rent burden
- Ida County$696 median gross rent · 24.7% rent burden
- Iowa County$686 median gross rent · 26.9% rent burden
- Jackson County$807 median gross rent · 44.6% rent burden
- Jasper County$836 median gross rent · 46.9% rent burden
- Jefferson County$883 median gross rent · 50.6% rent burden
- Johnson County$1,122 median gross rent · 56.2% rent burden
- Jones County$784 median gross rent · 35.4% rent burden
- Keokuk County$828 median gross rent · 37.8% rent burden
- Kossuth County$859 median gross rent · 30.9% rent burden
- Lee County$835 median gross rent · 49.2% rent burden
- Linn County$945 median gross rent · 44.8% rent burden
- Louisa County$775 median gross rent · 30.8% rent burden
- Lucas County$709 median gross rent · 18.8% rent burden
- Lyon County$843 median gross rent · 28.8% rent burden
- Madison County$1,036 median gross rent · 36.3% rent burden
- Mahaska County$793 median gross rent · 32.8% rent burden
- Marion County$884 median gross rent · 38.2% rent burden
- Marshall County$885 median gross rent · 32.4% rent burden
- Mills County$959 median gross rent · 35.3% rent burden
- Mitchell County$738 median gross rent · 35.7% rent burden
- Monona County$855 median gross rent · 40% rent burden
- Monroe County$798 median gross rent · 54.3% rent burden
- Montgomery County$814 median gross rent · 53.3% rent burden
- Muscatine County$971 median gross rent · 45.3% rent burden
- O'Brien County$868 median gross rent · 31.9% rent burden
- Osceola County$797 median gross rent · 53.3% rent burden
- Page County$705 median gross rent · 40.6% rent burden
- Palo Alto County$638 median gross rent · 42.4% rent burden
- Plymouth County$910 median gross rent · 30.6% rent burden
- Pocahontas County$832 median gross rent · 40.8% rent burden
- Polk County$1,149 median gross rent · 46.2% rent burden
- Pottawattamie County$1,018 median gross rent · 44.8% rent burden
- Poweshiek County$883 median gross rent · 40% rent burden
- Ringgold County$710 median gross rent · 41.4% rent burden
- Sac County$722 median gross rent · 32.5% rent burden
- Scott County$1,005 median gross rent · 47.3% rent burden
- Shelby County$783 median gross rent · 51.1% rent burden
- Sioux County$908 median gross rent · 30% rent burden
- Story County$1,018 median gross rent · 48.6% rent burden
- Tama County$872 median gross rent · 36.1% rent burden
- Taylor County$765 median gross rent · 31.4% rent burden
- Union County$721 median gross rent · 34.7% rent burden
- Van Buren County$622 median gross rent · 46.8% rent burden
- Wapello County$920 median gross rent · 47.6% rent burden
- Warren County$973 median gross rent · 41.8% rent burden
- Washington County$879 median gross rent · 32.1% rent burden
- Wayne County$659 median gross rent · 32.6% rent burden
- Webster County$785 median gross rent · 40.2% rent burden
- Winnebago County$717 median gross rent · 36.1% rent burden
- Winneshiek County$861 median gross rent · 36.5% rent burden
- Woodbury County$981 median gross rent · 42.5% rent burden
- Worth County$758 median gross rent · 21.4% rent burden
- Wright County$790 median gross rent · 41% rent burden
Data and definitions
How to read the estimates
The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.
- Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
- Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
- Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
- ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.
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