Davenport

City Commute Profile

Davenport, IA

Where Davenport’s 46,299 resident workers go each day — 46.9% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Bettendorf.

IowaLODES 2023 data
75
Commute Score

75 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Davenport at a glance
Employed Residents
46,299
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
5.7mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
46.9%
Share working within the area
Work from home
10.3%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Bettendorf
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Davenport proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Davenport commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Davenport

46,299 commutes, one dot at a time

Davenport

Where 46,299 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Davenport, by worker count.

1Davenport0.0 mi21,720
2Bettendorf4.7 mi4,104
3Rock Island3.8 mi2,209
4Moline5.7 mi1,805
5East Moline8.7 mi1,093
6Cedar Rapids63.8 mi843
7Muscatine25.5 mi790
8Eldridge7.4 mi767

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Davenport.

1Davenport0.0 mi21,720
2Bettendorf4.7 mi6,141
3Moline5.7 mi2,888
4Rock Island3.8 mi2,659
5Eldridge7.4 mi1,163
6East Moline8.7 mi1,129
7Dubuque66.5 mi972
8Clinton28.9 mi803

Top industries

The sectors that employ Davenport’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance16.1%
RTRetail Trade15.0%
MFManufacturing11.8%
AFAccommodation and Food Services10.6%
COConstruction5.7%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services5.7%
EDEducational Services5.6%
WSWholesale Trade4.9%
MGManagement of Companies and Enterprises4.5%

Davenport city profile

Who lives in Davenport — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
100,913
Median age
37.5yrs
Median household income
$66,200
Median home value
$166,400
Median gross rent
$978/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
29.9%
Poverty rate
15.2%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Davenport

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

11 providers · 3 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps99%
5 Gbps99%
8 Gbps
See all internet providers in Davenport

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).