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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 −8.7% YoY. inventory, +16.5% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 8.7% YoY while the median home got down 2.3% bigger, so value per square foot is down 6.0%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 50315 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 38.5% of this ZIP's 15,158 occupied households, on a median household income of $61K.
| Measure | ZIP 50315 | Polk County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $61K | $84K | -$23K |
| Below Poverty Level | 13.9% | 10.3% | +3.6% |
| Median Age | 35.40 | 36.20 | -0.80 |
| Total Population | 34,816 | 503,175 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.26 | 2.41 | -0.15 |
| Owner-Occupied | 61.5% | 67.4% | -5.9% |
| Worked From Home | 9.6% | 15.7% | -6.1% |
| Mean Commute | 22.30 | 20.00 | +2.30 |
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.