The story of this market
The typical home in ZIP 50317 sells for about $216,870, or $194 per square foot.
Prices are roughly flat from a year ago (+0.9%), a market in balance. Homes take about 29 days to sell, which is fast. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $1,102 a month.
ZIP 50317 — Des Moines
The 50317 housing market reflects the broader Des Moines metro area, characterized by moderate price growth and a balanced inventory. Sales activity remains steady, though the market is sensitive to interest rate fluctuations and local economic shifts. Figures are based on metro-wide data where ZIP-specific metrics are not explicitly published.
Median prices moved up 0.9% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 29 days on market with 4.4 months of supply — a fast-moving market.
19% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 100% of asking — demand is running ahead of supply.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 6.7% · poverty 14.0% — a stable, low-distress profile.
versus the prior ACS vintage
ZCTA 50317, 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 US Census Bureau ZCTA 50317 profile.
Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.