Zip lookup · IA

50263
Waukee, Iowa.

Waukee, Dallas County, IA · Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro · population 29,611

What it costs per month · 50263 $1,801/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$725 (+67%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Down $5,439 -2%
$348,490$343,051 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $21,696 +7%
$321,355$343,051 since Sep 2021

Monthly payment to buy the typical home

Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 50263 $1,801 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 50263$1,801
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 53 years.

Typical home values in zip 50263 fell 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 50263 rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 50263 runs $938/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,179 in Oct 2023.

That is $2,570 a month against $1,632 rent: a $1,801 mortgage payment, plus $402 property tax and $367 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 50263

The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.

$1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Owning all in $2,570 Renting $1,632 Mortgage only $1,801
$1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2022 2024 2026
  • Owning all in$2,570
  • Renting$1,632
  • Mortgage only$1,801

Property tax · $402/mo 1.41% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Dallas County, IA

Insurance & upkeep · $367/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.

Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Waukee, IA — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $1,632 as of Sep 2026
+5.7%year on year
Typical home value $343,051 as of Sep 2026
-1.6%year on year

Asking rent — 50263

Against the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro and the national benchmark.

$1,200 $1,400 $1,600 $1,800 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 50263 $1,632 Des Moines $1,280 United States $1,932
$1,200 $1,400 $1,600 $1,800 2022 2024 2026
  • 50263$1,632
  • Des Moines$1,280
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 50263

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 50263 $343,051 Des Moines $292,513 United States $366,157
$200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 50263$343,051
  • Des Moines$292,513
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 38 zips in range — sorting picks from all 38.

10 mi 20 mi 50 mi
Miles Zip City Population Rent Home value
4.0 50323 Urbandale 17,265 $2,075 $457,873
4.3 50325 Clive 19,012 $1,857 $434,039
4.5 50266 West Des Moines 37,523 $1,368 $334,561
7.1 50063 Dallas Center 2,720 — $330,034
7.3 50111 Grimes 16,865 $1,396 $346,634
7.7 50322 Urbandale 31,931 $1,030 $289,882
8.2 50265 West Des Moines 33,488 $1,310 $308,180
8.5 50003 Adel 9,948 $1,094 $402,637
8.6 50324 Windsor Heights 5,143 $1,400 $284,142
9.5 50261 Van Meter 3,399 — $424,639
9.6 50069 De Soto 1,109 — $259,135
9.6 50061 Cumming 2,123 — $605,442
10.5 50131 Johnston 24,583 $1,356 $401,338
10.6 50312 Des Moines 15,802 $1,144 $294,463
10.7 50311 Des Moines 14,574 $942 $225,988
10.8 50310 Des Moines 31,177 $913 $231,801
11.6 50321 Des Moines 7,900 $1,057 $355,961
11.9 50109 Granger 3,309 — $382,079
12.9 50314 Des Moines 10,438 $1,082 $158,505
13.1 50167 Minburn 592 — $283,798
13.4 50309 Des Moines 10,110 $1,261 $244,123
13.7 50313 Des Moines 17,440 $1,158 $184,332
14.0 50315 Des Moines 34,816 $1,073 $194,462
14.2 50211 Norwalk 16,835 $1,208 $342,660
14.6 50316 Des Moines 16,710 $1,228 $162,391
15.3 50023 Ankeny 46,306 $1,459 $355,240
15.5 50072 Earlham 2,979 — $362,214
16.1 50226 Polk City 7,759 $1,616 $429,534
16.7 50320 Des Moines 24,807 $1,220 $263,487
16.7 50039 Bouton 344 — $273,317

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.