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The median home value in Storm Lake, IA is $181,229 as of 2026-06-30, up 1.29% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$181,229
Year-over-Year
+1.29%
Population
11,494
Storm Lake ranks #52 of 72 Iowa cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 16.6% below the state's city median of $217,178. It sits in Buena Vista County, where the county-wide median is $191,650.
Storm Lake police recorded a violent crime rate of 287 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,679 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
The median home value in Storm Lake is $181,229. That's up 1.29% from a year earlier. That is about 16.6% below the typical county in Iowa.
Homes in Storm Lake are cheaper than Buena Vista County as a whole, where the median is $191,650 — a difference of about 5.4%.
Storm Lake police reported 287 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 11,494. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.