The story of this market
The typical home in ZIP 50320 sells for about $308,000, 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 $1,166 a month.
ZIP 50320 — Des Moines
The 50320 housing market is currently balanced, with a median listing price of $308,000 and a moderate inventory level. Market activity remains stable with a 1% year-over-year price increase and a sale-to-list ratio near 99%.
Median prices moved up 1.0% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 57 days on market with 3.6 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 7.2% · poverty 10.3% — a stable, low-distress profile.
versus the prior ACS vintage
ZCTA 50320, 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 50320 profile.
- Adventureland Park4.39.3 mi
- Spare Time Des Moines4.212.7 mi
- Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park4.211.5 mi
- Sky Zone Trampoline Park4.314.5 mi
- B&B Theatres Ankeny 12 & B-Roll Bowling4.512.6 mi
- Iowa State Fairgrounds4.64.2 mi
- Adventureland Park4.39.3 mi
- Casey's Center4.54.7 mi
- Iowa Events Center4.54.7 mi
- Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden4.74.8 mi
- Adventureland Park4.39.3 mi
- Blank Park Zoo4.52.9 mi
- Iowa State Capitol4.84.2 mi
- Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden4.74.8 mi
- Science Center of Iowa4.44.1 mi
- Iowa State Capitol4.84.2 mi
- Science Center of Iowa4.44.1 mi
- Pappajohn Sculpture Park4.64.8 mi
- Des Moines Art Center4.66.6 mi
- Hoyt Sherman Place4.85 mi
- Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden4.74.8 mi
- Raccoon River Park4.78.2 mi
- ARL Animal Rescue League of Iowa4.38.6 mi
- Fort Des Moines Park4.62.3 mi
- Des Moines Water Works Park4.65.6 mi
- Captain Roy's4.65.6 mi
- Saylorville Lake Marina4.716.7 mi
- Terrace Hills Golf Course4.410.5 mi
- Toad Valley Golf Course4.27.7 mi
- Woodland Hills Golf Course4.810.2 mi
- A.H. Blank Golf Course4.23.2 mi
- Golf Galaxy3.811 mi
- Jordan Creek Town Center4.512.3 mi
- Outlets of Des Moines4.38.9 mi
- Merle Hay Mall49.4 mi
- Hy-Vee Grocery Store4.34.3 mi
- The Southridge Mall3.61.9 mi
- Des Moines International Airport4.34.5 mi
Theme parks, venues, golf, airports, museums, water and shopping across the area from Google Maps, ranked by popularity within the radius shown.
Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.