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The median home value in Cedar Rapids, IA is $214,766 as of 2026-07-31, up 2.46% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$214,766
Year-over-Year
+2.46%
Population
135,363
Cedar Rapids ranks #37 of 72 Iowa cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 0.7% below the state's city median of $216,316. It sits in Linn County, where the county-wide median is $242,747.
Median household income in Cedar Rapids is $70,424, so the typical home value is about 3.0× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Cedar Rapids police recorded a violent crime rate of 262 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 2,689 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Cedar Rapids, that value is $214,766. That's up 2.46% from a year earlier. It is about 0.7% below the typical Iowa city tracked here.
Homes in Cedar Rapids are cheaper than Linn County as a whole, where the median is $242,747 — a difference of about 11.5%.
Median household income here is $70,424, so the typical home value is about 3.0× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Cedar Rapids police reported 262 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 135,363. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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