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A market with no active rental pool to price against. The sale-side figures below are the whole picture.
What would change this read: the median listing price is +2.4% YoY. inventory, +15.5% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 2.4% YoY while the median home got down 0.4% bigger, so value per square foot is down 0.9%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 50021 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 25.5% of this ZIP's 12,244 occupied households, on a median household income of $100K.
| Measure | ZIP 50021 | Polk County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $100K | $84K | +$16K |
| Below Poverty Level | 3.9% | 10.3% | -6.4% |
| Median Age | 35.90 | 36.20 | -0.30 |
| Total Population | 30,283 | 503,175 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.47 | 2.41 | +0.06 |
| Owner-Occupied | 74.5% | 67.4% | +7.2% |
| Worked From Home | 22.1% | 15.7% | +6.4% |
| Mean Commute | 19.40 | 20.00 | -0.60 |
Higher or lower is not itself good or bad — it describes the neighborhood, not the investment.
ZIP-level figures come from ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP codes. A missing value is suppressed or unavailable at this sample size, not zero. Estimates for 2019–2020 use the 2010 ZCTA boundaries and 2021–2024 the 2020 ones, so a step between those two years may be a boundary change rather than real movement.
County population is up 1.2% to 503,175: residents under 18 are up 0.2% and those 65 and over are up 3.3%.
County median household income is $84K, 10.3% of residents are below the poverty level, 15.7% work from home.