Stats from the Assessor

I got the 2012 report from the Story County Assessor. It is a long and twisted explanation of oversight of the Assessors office, but in short, all Mayors in the county have some say in it. We have a meeting once or twice a year to approve the assessor's budget, and various policies and projects.

One reminder regarding the assessor, is that no assessor sets your taxes. The assessor is tasked with assigning a value to your property. That's it. The property taxes you pay are based on what all the various governmental entities set for a rate to fund what they do.

In Roland, the school district is taking about 1/2 of your property tax dollars, the city about 30%, and the remainder goes to DMACC, Story County Hospital, and a few other agencies. As an aside, the school district also puts a surcharge on your income tax as well.

But anyway, on to the stats. In the report, the assessor included some numbers for Story County. They are not broken out by Roland only, but I thought there was some interesting stuff in there. The numbers I'm going to quote are everything in Story County not counting within the City of Ames.

I'm not sure how to format in this blog, so I will just run them together. So this will be for the years 2010, 2011, 2012.

Number of new homes: 38, 41, 72

Average Sales Price $165,034 $162,965 $176,223

Total Sales by Year: 233, 245, 287

Sales by Price Range 1 to $150,000 129, 143, 143 $151,00 to $225,000 67, 58, 76 $226,000 to $324,000 25, 32, 48 $325,000 to $1,200,000 12, 12, 20

So in my unprofessional opinion, it does appear sales and prices went in the right direction (if you are a homeowner) in 2012.