Código postal 50266 — West Des Moines, IA

English Español

El código postal 50266 cubre West Des Moines, Iowa, con una población de unos 36,770 y un ingreso medio del hogar de $85,282.

Población: 36,7701,648 per square mile
Edad media: 353.7 points below the US average
Ingreso medio del hogar: $85,2821.2× the Iowa median
Tasa de pobreza: 7.2%5.2 points below the US average
Valor típico de la vivienda: $337,653up 16.9% in five years
Alquiler medio: $1,2851.4× the Iowa median
Título universitario o superior: 60%25 points above the US average
Vivienda en propiedad: 50.1%14.9 points below the US average
Zona horaria: Central UTC-06:00observes daylight saving time
Empresas: 1,926

Dónde está 50266

West Des Moines, Iowa — el área que la Oficina del Censo delimita para este código postal. Los códigos postales son conjuntos de rutas de reparto y no áreas, así que esto es la aproximación del Censo, no un límite del Servicio Postal.

Población y hogares

American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates

Población	36,770
Edad media	35
Hogares familiares	47.9%
Nacidos fuera de EE. UU.	12.1%
Habla un idioma distinto del inglés en casa	14.2%
Blanca (no hispana)	79.8%
Negra (no hispana)	2.9%
Asiática (no hispana)	8%
Hispana o latina	5.1%
Veteranos	4.8%

Población por edad

Ingresos y pobreza

American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates

Ingreso medio del hogar	$85,282
Ingreso por persona	$57,737
Tasa de pobreza	7.2%
Hogares con SNAP o ayudas en efectivo	6.6%

Household income distribution

Under $10k	2.5%
$10–15k	1.8%
$15–20k	3.2%
$20–25k	2.4%
$25–30k	3.5%
$30–35k	3.4%
$35–40k	3.4%
$40–45k	4.4%
$45–50k	2.0%
$50–60k	6.9%
$60–75k	9.9%
$75–100k	15.4%
$100–125k	9.8%
$125–150k	6.3%
$150–200k	9.0%
$200k or more	16.1%

Income as declared to the IRS

Filed returns rather than survey responses, so this counts tax units and not households.

Declaraciones presentadas	19,450
Ingreso bruto ajustado medio	$119,897
Declaraciones de $200,000 o más	12.1%
Returns, under $25k	19.0%
Returns, $25k–$50k	22.1%
Returns, $50k–$75k	16.6%
Returns, $75k–$100k	10.7%
Returns, $100k–$200k	19.5%
Returns, $200k or more	12.1%

Vivienda

American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates

Valor medio de la vivienda	$325,100
Alquiler bruto medio	$1,285
Alquiler como porcentaje del ingreso del hogar	24.2%
Ocupada por su propietario	50.1%
Viviendas vacías	5.9%
Año medio de construcción	2002

What the homes are

Casa unifamiliar aislada	34.3%
Casa adosada	14.4%
De 2 a 4 viviendas	1.9%
De 5 a 19 viviendas	20.1%
20 o más viviendas	29%
Casa móvil	0.3%

Precios y alquileres actuales

Zillow Home Value Index and Zillow Observed Rent Index, courtesy of Zillow. Monthly and current, where the Census figures above are a five-year average and are capped at $2,000,000.

Valor típico de la vivienda	$337,653as of 2026-07
Typical home value, 1 year	down 0.3%
Typical home value, 5 years	up 16.9%
Typical home value, 10 years	up 40.1%
Alquiler típico solicitado	$1,373as of 2026-07
Typical asking rent, 1 year	up 2.3%
Typical asking rent, 5 years	up 19.4%

Valor típico de la vivienda desde 2000

$163,055 in 2000 to $337,653 in 2026.

Alquiler típico solicitado

$1,077 in 2018 to $1,373 in 2026.

Trabajo, desplazamientos y educación

American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates

Tasa de desempleo	2.6%
Licenciatura o superior	60%
Bachillerato o superior	97.5%
Trabaja desde casa	19.3%
Conduce solo al trabajo	69.3%
Usa el transporte público	0.2%
Se desplaza 45 minutos o más	3.8%

Salud

CDC PLACES 2025 release, model-based estimates. These are modelled small-area estimates for adults, not counts of diagnosed cases.

Obesidad	31.8% 1.6 pts below the national average of 33.4%
Diabetes diagnosticada	7.7% 4.3 pts below the national average of 12%
Fuma actualmente	9.4% 3.8 pts below the national average of 13.2%
Hipertensión arterial	26.5% 7.6 pts below the national average of 34.1%
Salud general regular o mala	12.1% 8.2 pts below the national average of 20.3%
Sin seguro médico (18 a 64 años)	5.1% 6.2 pts below the national average of 11.3%
Depresión	20% 1.9 pts below the national average of 21.9%
Sin actividad física en el tiempo libre	18% 7.4 pts below the national average of 25.4%
Artritis	20.6% 4.5 pts below the national average of 25.1%
Consumo excesivo de alcohol	22.3% 6.3 pts above the national average of 16%
Toma medicación para la tensión	73.2% 1.5 pts below the national average of 74.7%
Cáncer (excepto de piel)	6.9% 0.8 pts below the national average of 7.7%
Asma actual	9.2% 1.2 pts below the national average of 10.4%
Cardiopatía coronaria	4% 2.2 pts below the national average of 6.2%
Revisión médica en el último año	75% 1.7 pts below the national average of 76.7%
Prueba de colesterol	84.6% 1.3 pts below the national average of 85.9%
Discapacidad cognitiva	10.8% 4 pts below the national average of 14.8%
Cribado colorrectal	69% 4.7 pts above the national average of 64.3%
EPOC	3.9% 2.7 pts below the national average of 6.6%
Visitó al dentista	74.9% 13.6 pts above the national average of 61.3%
Alguna discapacidad	21.1% 9.6 pts below the national average of 30.7%
Falta de apoyo emocional	21.3% 3.5 pts below the national average of 24.8%
Inseguridad alimentaria	8.2% 8.9 pts below the national average of 17.1%
Recibió cupones de alimentos	6.1% 8.2 pts below the national average of 14.3%
Discapacidad auditiva	4.9% 1.8 pts below the national average of 6.7%
Colesterol alto	31.1% 5.1 pts below the national average of 36.2%
Inseguridad habitacional	7.5% 6.3 pts below the national average of 13.8%
Discapacidad para la vida independiente	5.1% 3.3 pts below the national average of 8.4%
Falta de transporte	5.2% 4 pts below the national average of 9.2%
Soledad	30.5% 3.9 pts below the national average of 34.4%
Mamografía	81.4% 5.5 pts above the national average of 75.9%
Mala salud mental (14 días o más)	14.9% 1.9 pts below the national average of 16.8%
Discapacidad de movilidad	7.6% 6.4 pts below the national average of 14%
Mala salud física (14 días o más)	9.4% 4.1 pts below the national average of 13.5%
Discapacidad para el autocuidado	2% 2 pts below the national average of 4%
Riesgo de corte de suministros	4.9% 3.9 pts below the national average of 8.8%
Duerme menos de 7 horas	28.6% 7.8 pts below the national average of 36.4%
Ictus	2.1% 1.3 pts below the national average of 3.4%
Pérdida de todos los dientes naturales	5.8% 7.2 pts below the national average of 13%
Discapacidad visual	2.8% 2.8 pts below the national average of 5.6%

Empresas y empleo

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns 2022

Establecimientos comerciales	1,926
Personas empleadas	54,153
Nómina anual	$4,025,106,000

Riesgo de desastres naturales

FEMA National Risk Index, estimated for this ZIP code from census tract data — the NRI is not published per ZIP.

Riesgo general	Mayor que el 40.9% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Calificación de FEMA	Very Low to Relatively Moderate en los 10 sectores censales que cubre este código postal
Pérdida anual esperada	55.2 sobre 100
Resiliencia comunitaria	94 sobre 100

By hazard

Score is out of 100 and is the area-weighted average across the census tracts this ZIP code covers. The rating beside it is the highest any one of those tracts carries.

Tornado	83.9Relatively High at its worst in this ZIP code
Granizo	83.3Relatively Moderate at its worst in this ZIP code
Viento fuerte	81.4Relatively High at its worst in this ZIP code
Tormenta de hielo	73.3Relatively Moderate at its worst in this ZIP code
Temporal invernal	72.2Relatively High at its worst in this ZIP code
Sequía	72Relatively Moderate at its worst in this ZIP code
Ola de calor	66.8Relatively Moderate at its worst in this ZIP code
Deslizamiento de tierra	66.3Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Incendio forestal	63.3Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Ola de frío	56.3Relatively Moderate at its worst in this ZIP code
Rayos	49.5Relatively Moderate at its worst in this ZIP code
Inundación fluvial	45Relatively Moderate at its worst in this ZIP code
Huracán	20.8Very Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Terremoto	10.9Very Low at its worst in this ZIP code

Comparado con Iowa y Estados Unidos

State and national columns are figures for those areas, not for this ZIP code. American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates

	This ZIP	Iowa	United States
Ingreso medio del hogar	$85,282	$73,147	$78,538
Ingreso por persona	$57,737	$39,728	$43,289
Tasa de pobreza	7.2%	11%	12.4%
Valor medio de la vivienda	$325,100	$195,900	$303,400
Alquiler bruto medio	$1,285	$949	$1,348
Vivienda en propiedad	50.1%	71.5%	65%
Licenciatura o superior	60%	30.9%	35%
Tasa de desempleo	2.6%	3.6%	5.2%
Trabaja desde casa	19.3%	10.4%	13.5%
Nacidos fuera de EE. UU.	12.1%	5.7%	13.9%
Edad media	35	38.6	38.7

Clima

NOAA US Climate Normals 1991-2020, from the nearest weather station with a full year of records. The station and its distance are named above, because a station forty kilometres away describes somewhere else.

Estación meteorológica	DES MOINES INTL AP, IA US12.8 km away
Lluvia al año	37 in
Nieve al año	36 in

Average high and low by month

enero	30.9°F / 13.8°F1.08 in rain, 9.4 in snow
febrero	35.7°F / 18°F1.34 in rain, 10.2 in snow
marzo	49.2°F / 29.6°F2.17 in rain, 4.4 in snow
abril	62°F / 40.6°F4.02 in rain, 1.2 in snow
mayo	72.4°F / 52.3°F5.24 in rain, 0.2 in snow
junio	81.9°F / 62.4°F5.26 in rain
julio	85.6°F / 66.4°F3.82 in rain
agosto	83.6°F / 64.2°F4.17 in rain
septiembre	76.9°F / 55.4°F3.18 in rain
octubre	63.4°F / 42.9°F2.78 in rain, 0.5 in snow
noviembre	48.3°F / 30.2°F1.91 in rain, 2.7 in snow
diciembre	35.9°F / 19.5°F1.58 in rain, 7.9 in snow

Acceso a alimentos

USDA Food Access Research Atlas, estimated for this ZIP code from census tract data. Each figure is the share of the ZIP code's land area that falls in a tract carrying that flag.

Bajos ingresos y lejos de un supermercado	None of this ZIP code
Lejos de un supermercado	45% of this ZIP code's area
Sin vehículo y lejos de un supermercado	None of this ZIP code

Distritos escolares

NCES Geographic Relationship File 2025, which states the association between each district and each ZIP code tabulation area directly. Elementary and secondary districts can cover the same ground, so shares need not total 100%.

This ZIP code is served by 2 school districts, so the address decides which one, not the ZIP code.

Waukee Community School District	73.8% de la superficie de este código postal
West Des Moines Community School District	25.6% de la superficie de este código postal

Comunidad y caminabilidad

CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index 2022 and the EPA National Walkability Index, both estimated for this ZIP code from census tract data. Vulnerability figures are national percentile ranks, not measurements.

Vulnerabilidad social general	27más vulnerable que el 27% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Nivel socioeconómico	19más vulnerable que el 19% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Características del hogar	38más vulnerable que el 38% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Minorías raciales y étnicas	31más vulnerable que el 31% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Tipo de vivienda y transporte	41más vulnerable que el 41% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Caminabilidad	10.2 out of 20Below average

Códigos postales cercanos

The closest ZIP codes by centre point, which is not the same as sharing a border.

50265 West Des Moines, IA	a 4.7 km
50263 Waukee, IA	a 5.6 km
50325 Clive, IA	a 6.1 km
50323 Urbandale, IA	a 7 km
50324 Windsor Heights, IA	a 7.9 km
50038 Booneville, IA	a 8.6 km
50322 Urbandale, IA	a 9.2 km
50398 Urbandale, IA	a 9.6 km

Ubicación, condados y zona horaria

County shares from Census 2020 ZCTA relationship files. Time zone from the USDOT National Transportation Atlas, which renders the boundaries written into 49 CFR Part 71.

Dallas County	74.8% of this ZIP code's land area
Polk County	25.2% of this ZIP code's land area
Zona horaria	Central (UTC-06:00 standard)
Horario de verano	Observed
Superficie terrestre	22.31 sq mi
Superficie de agua	0.33 sq mi
Densidad de población	1,648 people per sq mi
Latitud, longitud	41.5695, -93.7994

Las cifras corresponden a este código postal o a su área de tabulación censal salvo que la sección indique otra cosa. Las estimaciones cuyo margen de error las hacía poco fiables se omiten en lugar de mostrarse. Fuentes: Oficina del Censo de EE. UU., CDC, IRS.