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The median home value in Storm Lake, IA is $178,780 as of 2026-07-31, up 0.26% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$178,780
Year-over-Year
+0.26%
Population
11,494
Storm Lake ranks #53 of 72 Iowa cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 17.4% below the state's city median of $216,316. It sits in Buena Vista County, where the county-wide median is $190,121.
Median household income in Storm Lake is $62,765, so the typical home value is about 2.8× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
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).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Storm Lake, that value is $178,780. That's up 0.26% from a year earlier. It is about 17.4% below the typical Iowa city tracked here.
Homes in Storm Lake are cheaper than Buena Vista County as a whole, where the median is $190,121 — a difference of about 6.0%.
Median household income here is $62,765, so the typical home value is about 2.8× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
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.