The story of this market
The typical home in ZIP 50323 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 $1,575 a month.
ZIP 50323 — Urbandale
The housing market in the 50323 ZIP code area remains stable with balanced inventory levels and moderate price growth. Current data reflects a competitive environment for buyers, supported by strong local household income levels and low poverty rates. Market conditions are consistent with broader Des Moines metropolitan trends.
Median prices moved up 1.0% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 57 days on market with 2.8 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 0.6% · poverty 3.0% — a stable, low-distress profile.
versus the prior ACS vintage
net influx — more people moved in than out
ZCTA 50323, 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 Census Reporter ZCTA 50323 profile.
Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.