Metro area · Iowa

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro area

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL is a metropolitan area of 4 counties in Illinois, Iowa, home to 380,452 residents. Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro area has a quality-of-life score of 77 out of 100 (high), ranking #218 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Iowa it ranks #16 of 23. It ranks best on distance to an emergency room (low), flu vaccinations (high) and cost of buying a home today (low). It ranks worst on effective property tax rate (high), property crime rate (high) and job growth (low).

77High
Quality-of-life score
#218 of 925 metro and micro areas
Iowa
#16 of 23 in IA
Population
380,452 (2025)
Land area
2,270 mi²
Density
167.6 /mi²
CBSA code
19340

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety38#577/924
  • Economy61#363/925
  • Housing73#247/925
  • Health76#219/925
  • Healthcare84#149/923
  • Environment30#643/917
  • Education73#247/925
  • Infrastructure79#193/925
  • Community79#196/925
  • Leisure & amenities74#239/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Metro and micro areas like Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro area in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Scott CountyCentral county82175,259
  2. Rock Island CountyCentral county58141,869
  3. Henry CountyOutlying county7948,095
  4. Mercer CountyOutlying county6715,229

States

The share of the area's residents living in each state.

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. MolinePrincipal city42,197
  2. Rock IslandPrincipal city36,151
  3. DavenportPrincipal city100,913

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Davenport100,913
  2. Moline42,197
  3. Bettendorf39,647
  4. Rock Island36,151
  5. East Moline20,904
  6. Kewanee11,913
  7. Silvis7,955
  8. Eldridge6,818
  9. Geneseo6,673
  10. Colona5,139
  11. Milan5,034
  12. Le Claire4,735
  13. Coal Valley4,229
  14. Aledo3,668
  15. Galva2,454
  16. Park View2,437
  17. Carbon Cliff2,151
  18. Cambridge2,128
  19. Blue Grass1,972
  20. Durant1,946
  21. Hampton1,926
  22. Port Byron1,854
  23. Orion1,812
  24. Walcott1,725

Other metro and micro areas in Iowa

Areas based in Iowa, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

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