Rental listings collected from property managers' own websites and leasing software across Iowa, verified at the source within the last 30 days, licensed for display with attribution and a link back. Measured 2026-09-14. Building for a specific city? Check your market for its count.
Monthly asking-rent percentiles across 5,084 priced manager-direct listings in Iowa. The p25 to p75 band is the market's middle half.
| Bedrooms | Listings | p25 | Median | p75 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 279 | $700 | $880 | $1,025 |
| 1 bed | 1,495 | $750 | $920 | $1,195 |
| 2 bed | 1,991 | $850 | $1,029 | $1,384 |
| 3 bed | 929 | $1,097 | $1,399 | $1,800 |
| 4+ bed | 235 | $1,290 | $1,900 | $2,400 |
Share of 4,929 bedroom-tagged listings.
Cities with the most manager-direct inventory, with the median asking rent in each.
| City | Listings | Median rent |
|---|---|---|
| Des Moines | 844 | $945 |
| Ankeny | 367 | $1,325 |
| Ames | 276 | $969 |
| Waterloo | 243 | $875 |
| West Des Moines | 238 | $1,305 |
| Cedar Falls | 186 | $1,190 |
| Fort Dodge | 182 | $725 |
| Cedar Rapids | 181 | $905 |
| Davenport | 166 | $939 |
| Iowa City | 133 | $1,250 |
| Waukee | 126 | $1,595 |
| Dubuque | 115 | $1,150 |
The median asking rent across manager-direct listings in Iowa is $1,050 a month, and the middle half of the market sits between $825 and $1,395. 2 bed units are the largest group at 40% of bedroom-tagged inventory, with a median of $1,029. Among the larger cities, Ankeny is the most expensive at a median of $1,325 and Waterloo the least at $875. Where a property type is stated, the mix is multifamily 42%, apartment 36%, single-family home 17%, townhouse 2%. The median listed size is 835 sq ft.
One record per unit with address, coordinates, rent, bedrooms, bathrooms, size, availability, photos and the manager's own listing URL; weekly added, changed and removed records; CSV, JSON or API. Licensed for display in consumer-facing products, with attribution and link-back, from $300 a month for a metro. How the rental listings API works →
Coverage measured on the current displayable set (Up to 1,000 rows per platform verified 2-30 days ago (so enrichment has run), 22,021 rows over 28 platforms, weighted by each platform's 30-day count.). It varies by source and market; the sample for your geography shows the exact share. State-level field coverage comes with your sample.
| url | Source URL the manager's own listing page; attribution and link-back target | nearly every record | |
| rent_min | Rent monthly asking rent, native currency plus rent_usd | nearly every record | |
| street | Street address plus city, state, ZIP; the full string in address | nearly every record | |
| zip | ZIP | most records | |
| beds | Bedrooms 0 = studio | most records | |
| baths | Bathrooms | nearly every record | |
| sqft_min | Size square feet; rent_per_sqft and rent_per_sqm derived | most records | |
| latlng | Coordinates geocoded when the source does not publish them | about half | |
| image | Photo primary image URL; images holds the gallery where the source publishes one | about half | |
| available | Availability date or NOW as published | about half | |
| property_type | Property type apartment, house, condo, townhouse, room, normalised | about half | |
| amenities | Amenities list, as published | sparse | |
| description | Description the manager's text; generated boilerplate is removed | sparse | |
| first_seen_at | First seen when we first saw the listing at its source | most records | |
| last_seen_at | Last verified when we last confirmed it was still published | nearly every record |
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