52801Davenport, Iowa

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 52801.

51out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 19% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity4538th of 6,210 published ZIP areas44
Growth4178th of 5,428 published ZIP areas33
Housing affordability6602nd of 6,685 published ZIP areas25
Climate5895th of 6,789 published ZIP areas59
Physical resilienceTop 25% of 6,709 published ZIP areas79
AccessTop 32% of 6,791 published ZIP areas97
Economic stability6073rd of 6,742 published ZIP areas32
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 4.2% and the Opportunity signal places 52801 in the bottom 27%.

Residential permitting has slowed: 113 units authorized over the past twelve months, 57% below the prior year.

Rent takes 37% of median household income here, at or above the threshold conventionally called cost-burdened.

At a glance

Population
1,788
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$31,204
Bottom 2% nationally
Density
4,620/sq mi
0.4 sq mi of land
Median age
30.6
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Davenport
Iowa
Metro area
Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL
Nearest major airport
MLI
6 mi · Quad Cities Intl
Median home value

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.2% is lower than 60% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.9% over the past year, to 51,221 employed residents.

Median household income of $31,204 is below 98% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$11,807$31,204Bottom 2%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$10,044$29,023Bottom 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate40.7%Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute20.7 minBottom 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher20.4%Bottom 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment51,221Bottom 49%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.1%Top 36%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.9%Bottom 46%June 2026
Labor force53,464Bottom 48%June 2026
Labor force participation63.7%Top 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$61,900Bottom 27%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$48,550Bottom 31%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.8%Bottom 10%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.2%Bottom 40%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202431k22k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $31,204 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers4,810$31,200
Retail Salespersons4,760$32,030
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand4,370$42,980
Cashiers4,250$31,200
General and Operations Managers3,750$91,140
Registered Nurses3,520$77,150

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Davenport, IA, the city containing this ZIP code.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $973 takes 37% of median household income, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

Rent as a share of income
37.4%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$973
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Homeownership rate0.0%Bottom 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±1941,257Top 50%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$112$973Bottom 46%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income37.4%Top 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate16.1%Top 35%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
33/ 100
Ranks 4178 of 5,428 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

At 1.1 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
113
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
1.1
Bottom 28% nationally
Year over year
−57%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
46.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Davenport, IA, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 86°F and January a low of 15°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 38.3 inches, including 36.1 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 46, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

0°20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station MOLINE QUAD CITY INTL AP, 4.7 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index61.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation38.3"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall36.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low15°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high86°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index46.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing52°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
46
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
61
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

79 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, hail and drought.

HailElevated
Inland floodingModerate
Ice stormModerate
DroughtModerate

Low or minimal exposure: strong wind, winter weather, heat wave, lightning, tornado, cold wave, earthquake, landslide, wildfire, hurricane.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Scott County records 6.3 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 13.8 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 8.0 per 100,000 residents in Scott County.

Homicide
6.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
13.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
8.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
18.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Scott County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 52801 rather than 52801 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 6 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Quad Cities IntlMLI6 mi10,002 ft
The Eastern IowaCID64 mi8,600 ft
General Downing - Peoria IntlPIA75 mi10,104 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

52801 vs Davenport

How this ZIP area compares with Davenport as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

52801
Davenport
Median household income
$31,204
vs
$66,200
Per capita income
$29,023
vs
$37,521
Population density
4,620/sq mi
vs
1,572/sq mi
Median gross rent
$973
vs
$978
Homeownership rate
0.0%
vs
62.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher
20.4%
vs
29.9%
Poverty rate
40.7%
vs
15.2%
Median age
30.6
vs
37.5

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.