The story of this market
The typical home in ZIP 50118 sells for about $230,000, or $206 per square foot.
Prices are up +2.22% from a year ago, so sellers still have some momentum. Homes take about 53 days to sell. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $1,151 a month.
ZIP 50118 — Hartford
The housing market in the Des Moines area remains stable with modest price appreciation and balanced inventory levels. Buyers are seeing more options as new listings enter the market, though sellers are increasingly adjusting prices to meet current demand. Market conditions are largely driven by regional economic stability and steady, albeit slow, growth in home values.
Median prices moved up 2.2% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 53 days on market with 3.6 months of supply — a fast-moving market.
18% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 98.5% of asking — demand is running ahead of supply.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 3.1% · poverty 6.4% — a stable, low-distress profile.
versus the prior ACS vintage
ZCTA 50118
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 for ZCTA 50118
- Adventureland Park4.315 mi
- Adventure Bay Waterpark4.314.6 mi
- Escape Chambers Des Moines4.315.4 mi
- Wreck N' Roll Rage Room512.8 mi
- Iowa State Fairgrounds4.613.3 mi
- Adventureland Park4.315 mi
- Casey's Center4.515.9 mi
- Iowa Events Center4.515.9 mi
- Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden4.715.7 mi
- Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge4.78.1 mi
- Sleepy Hollow4.312.2 mi
- Yellow Banks Park4.58.1 mi
- Copper Creek 94.512.6 mi
- Great Escape4.311.6 mi
- Iowa State Capitol4.815.1 mi
- Science Center of Iowa4.415.5 mi
- Pappajohn Sculpture Park4.616.2 mi
- Des Moines Art Center4.618.2 mi
- Hoyt Sherman Place4.816.4 mi
- Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge4.78.1 mi
- Easter Lake Park4.511.6 mi
- Sleepy Hollow4.312.2 mi
- Yellow Banks Park4.58.1 mi
- Ewing Park4.712.3 mi
- Captain Roy's4.616.2 mi
- Red Rock Marina4.719.5 mi
- Toad Valley Golf Course4.29.6 mi
- Terrace Hills Golf Course4.412.9 mi
- Copper Creek Golf Club and Event Center4.412.6 mi
- Indianola Golf Club4.511.7 mi
- Shady Oaks Golf Course4.27.9 mi
- The Southridge Mall3.612.8 mi
- Ross Dress for Less3.912.8 mi
- Hy-Vee Grocery Store4.312.2 mi
- Hy-Vee Grocery Store4.312.8 mi
- Marshalls4.212.8 mi
- Des Moines International Airport4.315.8 mi
Theme parks, venues, golf, airports, museums, water and shopping across the area ranked by popularity within the radius shown.
Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.