Cedar Rapids, IA
Metropolitan statistical area, CBSA 16300 · 42.09, -91.63
6 findings fired for Cedar Rapids, IA this run, against a typical home value of $246,602 in September 2026 and covered employment of 137,368 in 2026 Q1.
- 59th pct · 161st of 393 US metro areas · median 105,500
Total employment in the BLS OEWS occupational tables for this metro area. It is an occupational survey total, not the QCEW payroll count below.
An estimate: the sum of the member counties BLS publishes, not BLS's own metro row, whose boundaries follow each year's delineation. The arithmetic is printed below.
- 29th pct · 269th of 379 US metro areas · median $305,707
Zillow Home Value Index, metro file, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 17th pct · 316th of 382 US metro areas · median $1,504
Zillow Observed Rent Index, metro file.
- 48th pct · 194th of 379 US metro areas · median 16.9
typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month.
- 78th pct · 83rd of 379 US metro areas · median 2.0%
Zillow's own twelve-month change on the metro row.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Occupation mix #
The 30 largest detailed occupations and all 22 SOC major groups in Cedar Rapids, IA, from the bundled BLS OEWS release.
| SOC | Occupation | Jobs | Mean annual wage | Location quotient |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35-3023 | Fast Food and Counter Workers | 3,590 | $28,880 | 1.04 |
| 41-2031 | Retail Salespersons | 3,410 | $34,590 | 0.98 |
| 43-4051 | Customer Service Representatives | 3,130 | $46,400 | 1.35 |
| 41-2011 | Cashiers | 3,090 | $30,760 | 1.12 |
| 53-3032 | Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers | 3,030 | $61,120 | 1.64 |
| 29-1141 | Registered Nurses | 2,880 | $80,160 | 0.95 |
| 11-1021 | General and Operations Managers | 2,860 | $109,150 | 0.91 |
| 53-7062 | Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand | 2,730 | $42,660 | 1.03 |
| 53-7065 | Stockers and Order Fillers | 2,270 | $38,370 | 0.89 |
| 31-1120 | Home Health and Personal Care Aides | 2,260 | $36,650 | 0.59 |
| 43-9061 | Office Clerks, General | 2,020 | $45,800 | 0.92 |
| 37-2011 | Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | 1,970 | $37,700 | 1.00 |
| 35-3031 | Waiters and Waitresses | 1,920 | $27,490 | 0.94 |
| 41-4012 | Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products | 1,910 | $77,300 | 1.72 |
| 25-9045 | Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | 1,870 | $32,050 | 1.47 |
| 31-1131 | Nursing Assistants | 1,740 | $41,100 | 1.34 |
| 47-2111 | Electricians | 1,690 | $56,880 | 2.50 |
| 51-2028 | Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers | 1,680 | $46,970 | 7.61 |
| 43-6014 | Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 1,290 | $45,690 | 0.84 |
| 51-2090 | Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators | 1,290 | $43,570 | 1.03 |
| 25-2031 | Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education | 1,280 | $65,810 | 1.34 |
| 49-9071 | Maintenance and Repair Workers, General | 1,260 | $56,240 | 0.92 |
| 15-1252 | Software Developers | 1,250 | $116,430 | 0.83 |
| 13-2011 | Accountants and Auditors | 1,190 | $83,680 | 0.91 |
| 43-3031 | Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 1,120 | $50,330 | 0.91 |
| 47-1011 | First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers | 1,120 | $84,910 | 1.54 |
| 35-2014 | Cooks, Restaurant | 1,110 | $35,450 | 0.88 |
| 51-9111 | Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders | 1,080 | $62,650 | 3.19 |
| 33-9032 | Security Guards | 1,070 | $40,350 | 0.93 |
| 35-1012 | First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers | 1,050 | $42,150 | 0.95 |
| SOC | Occupation | Jobs | Mean annual wage | Location quotient |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43-0000 | Office and Administrative Support Occupations | 15,260 | $48,840 | 0.96 |
| 53-0000 | Transportation and Material Moving Occupations | 12,750 | $48,360 | 1.04 |
| 41-0000 | Sales and Related Occupations | 12,570 | $51,450 | 1.05 |
| 35-0000 | Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations | 11,670 | $31,280 | 0.95 |
| 51-0000 | Production Occupations | 11,470 | $54,040 | 1.50 |
| 25-0000 | Educational Instruction and Library Occupations | 9,230 | $54,130 | 1.13 |
| 11-0000 | Management Occupations | 8,970 | $118,440 | 0.90 |
| 13-0000 | Business and Financial Operations Occupations | 8,330 | $81,850 | 0.88 |
| 47-0000 | Construction and Extraction Occupations | 7,630 | $62,930 | 1.33 |
| 29-0000 | Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations | 7,440 | $89,350 | 0.85 |
| 49-0000 | Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations | 6,290 | $63,370 | 1.15 |
| 31-0000 | Healthcare Support Occupations | 5,600 | $40,830 | 0.79 |
| 15-0000 | Computer and Mathematical Occupations | 4,280 | $95,060 | 0.91 |
| 37-0000 | Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations | 3,630 | $38,820 | 0.89 |
| 33-0000 | Protective Service Occupations | 2,750 | $54,760 | 0.81 |
| 39-0000 | Personal Care and Service Occupations | 2,630 | $34,300 | 0.90 |
| 21-0000 | Community and Social Service Occupations | 2,540 | $56,030 | 1.06 |
| 17-0000 | Architecture and Engineering Occupations | 2,390 | $95,080 | 1.02 |
| 27-0000 | Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations | 1,940 | $64,080 | 1.06 |
| 19-0000 | Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations | 910 | $81,880 | 0.69 |
| 23-0000 | Legal Occupations | 780 | $101,180 | 0.66 |
| 45-0000 | Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations | 230 | $46,690 | 0.58 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, metropolitan area tables, committed to this repository rather than fetched. A location quotient above 1 means the occupation is more concentrated here than in the United States as a whole; wages are means, not medians, and BLS suppresses a wage where its sample is too thin.
Housing #
The typical home in the Cedar Rapids, IA metro was worth $246,602 in September 2026.
25 months to September 2026. Rent: $1,226 in September 2026.
Zillow Home Value Index and Observed Rent Index, metro files, joined by the RegionID recorded in the place manifest. Both are smoothed indices of the middle third of the market, not sale prices.
Employment, rolled up from member counties #
About 137,368 covered jobs across the 3 member counties BLS published.
- jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the 3 of 3 member counties BLS publishes.
- 137,368 = 5,838 + 6,030 + 125,500
| County | FIPS |
|---|---|
| Benton County, IA | 19011 |
| Jones County, IA | 19105 |
| Linn County, IA | 19113 |
The place manifest names 3 member counties for this metro, fewer than the 5 a cohort needs before a percentile means anything, so no within-metro position is offered for its counties. The positions above are against the other 392 metropolitan areas, which is a cohort that does not depend on the county pull.
There are no QCEW metro employment totals here, and that is a property of the data rather than an omission: BLS does publish MSA area codes (C####), but lib/economy's QCEW reader handles only county (SSCCC), state (SS000) and national (US000) rows at aggregation levels 74, 54 and 14, and the /api/economy route regex rejects anything else. So this figure is a sum of member counties, labelled an estimate, with every county it could not count named.
National indicator context #
None of these series is keyed to this metro area. They are national, gauge, single-state or port series, shown as context for the numbers above.
| Indicator | Latest | Unit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Memphis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Ohio River at Louisville, stage | 17.95 | ft | ok |
| Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) | 5,170.00 | ft³/s | ok |
| Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full | 72.20 | % | ok |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly | 258,700.00 | trucks | ok |
| Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual | 10,513,167.00 | TEU | watch |
| Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports | 7.00 | ships | ok |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate | 7,848.00 | $ per 40 ft box | watch |
| US diesel retail price | not published | $ per gallon | no data |
| WTI crude oil, spot | 101.91 | $ per barrel | watch |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate | 7.40 | % | watch |
| Housing starts, annual rate | 1,275.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Building permits, annual rate | 1,403.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Case-Shiller US home price index | 337.31 | index, Jan 2000 = 100 | ok |
| Unemployment rate | 4.20 | % | ok |
| US goods and services trade balance, monthly | -105,572.00 | $ millions | ok |
| Retail sales excluding food services, monthly | 652,115.00 | $ millions | ok |
lib/indicators has no geographic selection: every registry entry is a United States, gauge, Texas, port, crossing or world series, and no entry is metro-keyed. Reading these as this metro's own readings would be wrong.
What changed #
Cedar Rapids, IA: 6 findings, 1 at a watch level and 5 noted
watchCedar Rapids, IA's typical asking rent is +14.1% against a year earlier, a watch level here: typical asking rent at least 8 percent above a year ago (arithmetic on Zillow ZORI; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- test: rent.yoyPct = 14.145395474121958 >= 8
arithmetic on Zillow ZORI; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
noteCedar Rapids, IA's typical asking rent rose 1.1% from $1,213 in August 2026 to $1,226 in September 2026, on Zillow ZORI.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- +1.1% = (1226.4962940850098 - 1212.7532744622554) / 1212.7532744622554 × 100
- 1226.4962940850098 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-09
- 1212.7532744622554 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-08
noteCedar Rapids, IA's typical home value rose 0.4% from $245,501 in August 2026 to $246,602 in September 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- +0.4% = (246602.0402274823 - 245501.3216933061) / 245501.3216933061 × 100
- 246602.0402274823 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-09
- 245501.3216933061 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08
noteThe next Unemployment rate (BLS Employment Situation, monthly) covering Cedar Rapids, IA is due between 2026-10-30 and 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
Show the arithmetic
- window = 2026-10-30 to 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
noteThe next Zillow ZHVI typical home value (monthly) covering Cedar Rapids, IA is due between 2026-11-14 and 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
Show the arithmetic
- window = 2026-11-14 to 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
The full Cedar Rapids, IA brief, with the arithmetic behind every sentence.
Metro briefs are thinner by construction: with no QCEW metro path, their findings come from Zillow's metro home value and rent rows, the county rollup, and nearby crossings and ports.