The story of this market
The typical home in ZIP 52542 sells for about $107,000, or $82 per square foot.
Prices are down 5.5% from a year ago, which gives buyers more room to negotiate. Homes take about 71 days to sell, which is slow. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $758 a month.
ZIP 52542 — Cantril
The housing market in the Centerville area (ZIP 52544, which serves as the primary market proxy for the region) is currently a buyer's market characterized by high inventory and downward price pressure. Homes are selling below the asking price, with a median listing price of $107,000 and a year-over-year price decline of 5.5% in the broader county.
Median prices moved down 5.5% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 71 days on market with 0.0 months of supply — a balanced-paced market.
0% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 94% of asking — demand is running ahead of supply.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 2.5% · poverty 9.1% — a stable, low-distress profile.
ZIP code tabulation area 52542
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.
Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.