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A market with no active rental pool to price against. The sale-side figures below are the whole picture.
What would change this read: the median listing price is −11.4% YoY. inventory, +44.4% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 11.4% YoY while the median home got down 17.6% bigger, so value per square foot is up 11.6%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 01128 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 5.9% of this ZIP's 1,022 occupied households, on a median household income of $100K.
| Measure | ZIP 01128 | Hampden County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $100K | $71K | +$29K |
| Below Poverty Level | 6.9% | 16.3% | -9.4% |
| Median Age | 39.60 | 40.00 | -0.40 |
| Total Population | 2,896 | 462,815 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.83 | 2.44 | +0.39 |
| Owner-Occupied | 94.1% | 62.2% | +31.9% |
| Worked From Home | 6.4% | 10.5% | -4.1% |
| Mean Commute | 23.00 | 22.70 | +0.30 |
Higher or lower is not itself good or bad — it describes the neighborhood, not the investment.
ZIP-level figures come from ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP codes. A missing value is suppressed or unavailable at this sample size, not zero. Estimates for 2019–2020 use the 2010 ZCTA boundaries and 2021–2024 the 2020 ones, so a step between those two years may be a boundary change rather than real movement.
County population is down 0.0% to 462,815: residents under 18 are down 0.8% and those 65 and over are up 2.4%.
County median household income is $71K, 16.3% of residents are below the poverty level, 10.5% work from home.