A typical Calamus home is worth about $222,000
Up 7.2% in a year, 7% below the Iowa typical home.
What kind of housing town is Calamus?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
Up 25.2% in five years
About the same pace as Iowa (26.1%).
Show as a table
| January | Calamus | Iowa |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $140,000 | $159,000 |
| 2020 | $148,000 | $167,000 |
| 2021 | $170,000 | $179,000 |
| 2022 | $186,000 | $195,000 |
| 2023 | $200,000 | $211,000 |
| 2024 | $205,000 | $218,000 |
| 2025 | $208,000 | $228,000 |
| 2026 | $214,000 | $236,000 |
| August 2026 | $222,000 | $240,000 |
A typical Calamus home worth $132K in February 2018 is worth about $222K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
91% of Calamus households own their home
Half of Calamus’s homes were built before 1953.
Iowa: 72% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
What it takes to buy in Calamus
Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Calamus home, with $51K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $930 a month here, $490 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Iowa typical property tax (1.39% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $930
Renters already here pay a median of $641, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
No new homes permitted in 2025
No permits for new homes were issued in Calamus in 2025. The last year with any was 2021 (1 new home).
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Calamus's population fell by 83 and no new homes were permitted. Across Iowa: 1.3 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $245,000 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $150,000 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $245,000 |
| 2004 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $450,000 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $400,000 |
| 2002 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2001 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $160,000 |
| 2000 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $120,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
On the market in Calamus
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
Neighbors talk housing
What Calamus buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.