A typical Minburn home is worth about $303,000
Up 2.7% in a year, 27% above the Iowa typical home.
What kind of housing town is Minburn?
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What it takes to buy in Minburn
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That’s $30K short of a typical Minburn home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,080 a month here, $860 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Iowa typical property tax (1.39% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
79% of Minburn households own their home
Half of Minburn’s homes were built before 1947.
Iowa: 72% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Up 31.2% in five years
Faster than Iowa (26.1%).
Show as a table
| January | Minburn | Iowa |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $177,000 | $147,000 |
| 2018 | $170,000 | $152,000 |
| 2019 | $183,000 | $159,000 |
| 2020 | $192,000 | $167,000 |
| 2021 | $212,000 | $179,000 |
| 2022 | $240,000 | $195,000 |
| 2023 | $268,000 | $211,000 |
| 2024 | $273,000 | $218,000 |
| 2025 | $293,000 | $228,000 |
| 2026 | $297,000 | $236,000 |
| August 2026 | $303,000 | $240,000 |
A typical Minburn home worth $177K in September 2016 is worth about $303K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,080
Renters already here pay a median of $967, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
2 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 2 new homes in Minburn in 2025, all single-family houses. Over the past 10 years, Minburn has permitted 2 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Minburn's population fell by 40 and no new homes were permitted. Across Iowa: 1.3 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 2 | 2 | 0 | $734,000 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $734,000 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $75,000 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $68,000 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $160,000 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $160,000 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $75,000 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.