Waukee, IA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Waukee, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Waukee sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, as of October 2026.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 463
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $385,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $239
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $313,000 and $484,900

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 463 closed sales in Waukee over the last six months, with a median closing price of $385,000. That median is the midpoint of what buyers actually paid, not what sellers hoped to get, which is why it moves differently from the asking prices you see on listing sites. The middle half of those sales closed between $313,000 and $484,900. That spread matters more than the headline median: where a specific property sits inside it decides whether the citywide number helps you or misleads you. These are the closings Resideline tracks and may differ from complete county or municipal records. Across the 460 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $192 and $285 per square foot.

Figures last updated October 3, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Waukee, IA (October 2026)

The median home price in Waukee is $385,000, measured across the 463 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $313,000 and $484,900.

Where Waukee sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Waukee over the last six months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $313,000 and $484,900. Among the 24 Iowa markets with a published band, Waukee's middle-half spread ($313,000 to $484,900) ranks 4th from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 63 days, across 361 Waukee closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 41 days, across 375 Waukee closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Waukee angle

Across 463 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $385,000, and the middle half closed between $313,000 and $484,900. Tight bands make the citywide median a genuinely useful anchor, which turns your work into a typicality check rather than a hunt for the one right comp. Note that the reach up to the upper quartile is longer than the reach down to the lower one, so the exceptions here run upward.

Waukee market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Waukee ZIP codes: 50263.

From market read to offer price

A market read is the backdrop. The decision still comes down to one property and one number: what it is actually worth and what you should pay. Every Resideline report opens with this same market snapshot for the subject's exact ZIP code, then gives you the property's value, the sold comps behind it, and a market rent estimate. Pricing a specific deal? The free ARV calculator, rehab cost estimator, BRRRR calculator and rental property calculator run the numbers in about a minute.

And we show our work. Every estimate is frozen while the home is for sale and graded against the real closing price after it sells. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Waukee address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Waukee, IA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 1982695
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 463
Median sold price: $385,000
Median sold $/sqft: $239 (460 qualifying)
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The local market statistics in this report are calculated from closed sales tracked by Resideline. Transaction coverage may differ from complete county or municipal records.

Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Waukee over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.