The story of this market
The typical home in ZIP 52136 sells for about $148,000, or $85 per square foot.
Prices are up +2.1% from a year ago, so sellers still have some momentum. Homes take about 112 days to sell, which is slow. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $850 a month.
This ZIP has no home sales of its own, so its market figures come from Howard County, Iowa (county-level). Population, rents, hazards, lending and amenities are this ZIP's own readings.
ZIP 52136 — Cresco
The market in 52136 shows a median listing price of $249,000 with 24 active listings. Data for sales volume, months of supply, and tax rates are not currently published at the ZIP level. The area is characterized by older housing stock and moderate affordability.
Median prices moved up 2.1% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 112 days on market with 2.2 months of supply — a balanced-paced market.
12% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 96.5% of asking — demand is running ahead of supply.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 1.3% · poverty 9.5% — a stable, low-distress profile.
ZCTA 52136, Howard 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 Census Bureau and Neilsberg insights.
Deterministic aggregate of 1 researched property in this ZIP (latest reading each) — each property weighs one; per point, properties lacking the value are excluded. Property-level records (taxes, scores, permits) never roll individually.
No county-record distress flags across 1 researched property on the ARED base layer. Key-figure check: median price diverges 32.6% from the nearest retained anchor (published ten-year series (2025)) — beyond the 12.5% tolerance; an automated validation case is open and the value publishes pending its verdict. Validation: the flagged $249,000 failed independent re-validation and was removed (no prior-cycle value to revert to); the case is under review in the Command Center.