Davenport
Davenport is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States, and its county seat.
Davenport is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States, and its county seat. The population was 101,724 at the 2020 census, and was estimated at 100,938 in 2024, making it the third-most populous city in Iowa, after Des Moines and Cedar Rapids. It is situated along the Mississippi River on the eastern border of the state. Together with Bettendorf, Iowa; Rock Island, Illinois; Moline, Illinois; and East Moline, Illinois, Davenport is one of the five Quad Cities in Iowa and Illinois. It is the largest city in the Quad Cities area, which has a metropolitan area population of 384,324 and a Combined statistical area population of 474,019 in the 2020 census.
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Getting to Davenport
- Airports
- Chicago O'Hare (ORD), 229 km · Chicago Midway (MDW), 238 km · Des Moines (DSM), 254 km
- Chicago → Davenport246 km · quickest by road, 4h 18m · $23–31
- Des Moines → Davenport252 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · $22–30
- Milwaukee → Davenport277 km · quickest by road, 5h 7m · $27–38
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Davenport
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Davenport. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundA unique way to see the Quad Cities is from the Channel Cat Water Taxi, an open air boat that transports people and bicycles to the Iowa and Illinois shorelines.
From Wikivoyage: Davenport, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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