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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 +8.5% YoY. inventory, +69.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 8.5% YoY while the median home got up 10.7% bigger, so value per square foot is down 1.8%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 01905 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 48.3% of this ZIP's 9,086 occupied households, on a median household income of $84K.
| Measure | ZIP 01905 | Essex County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $84K | $102K | -$18K |
| Below Poverty Level | 12.3% | 9.4% | +2.9% |
| Median Age | 33.10 | 41.20 | -8.10 |
| Total Population | 28,221 | 813,054 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 3.10 | 2.54 | +0.56 |
| Owner-Occupied | 51.7% | 63.5% | -11.8% |
| Worked From Home | 6.7% | 16.4% | -9.7% |
| Mean Commute | 33.80 | 28.50 | +5.30 |
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 up 0.7% to 813,054: residents under 18 are up 0.0% and those 65 and over are up 3.3%.
County median household income is $102K, 9.4% of residents are below the poverty level, 16.4% work from home.