The story of this market
The typical home in ZIP 50073 sells for about $308,500, or $229 per square foot.
Prices are roughly flat from a year ago (+1%), a market in balance. Homes take about 57 days to sell. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $841 a month.
ZIP 50073 — Elkhart
The housing market in the Des Moines metro area, which includes ZIP 50073, is currently exhibiting balanced conditions. With a median sale price of $308,500 and a sale-to-list ratio near 99%, demand remains steady despite a modest increase in days on market. Market activity is characterized by stable pricing and moderate inventory levels.
Median prices moved up 1.0% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 57 days on market with 2.9 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 1.0% · poverty 10.8% — a stable, low-distress profile.
versus the prior ACS vintage
ZCTA 50073, Iowa
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 50073 profile.
Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.