The story of this market
The typical home in ZIP 50023 sells for about $336,000, or $225 per square foot.
Prices are down 7% from a year ago, which gives buyers more room to negotiate. Homes take about 62 days to sell, which is slow. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $1,240 a month.
ZIP 50023 — Ankeny
The 50023 housing market is experiencing a cooling phase with median sale prices down 7% year-over-year. Increased days on market and a decline in closed sales suggest a shift toward a more buyer-friendly environment.
Median prices moved down 7.0% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 62 days on market with 1.0 months of supply — a fast-moving market.
19% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 98.9% of asking — demand is running ahead of supply.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 1.9% · poverty 4.1% — a stable, low-distress profile.
versus the prior ACS vintage
ZCTA 50023, Polk County IA
ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Aggregate published statistics for this ZIP — never individual records, and never an attribute of any individual property or resident.
Composed from the ARED governance burden registry — tier-native tax structure (state + county + city + special districts), never averaged. State (Iowa) — Iowa Property Tax Assessment Limitation: The taxable value is determined by applying an assessment limitation (rollback) to the assessed market value. The limitation is calculated annually to restrict the growth in aggregate taxable value for the residential class to 3% statewide.
Data retrieved from data.census.gov ZCTA 50023 profile.
Deterministic aggregate of 1 researched property in this ZIP (latest reading each) — each property weighs one; per point, properties lacking the value are excluded. Property-level records (taxes, scores, permits) never roll individually.
Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.