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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 −5.0% YoY. inventory, −15.8% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 5.0% YoY while the median home got up 0.1% bigger, so value per square foot is up 11.7%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 02142 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 93.1% of this ZIP's 2,153 occupied households, on a median household income of $148K.
| Measure | ZIP 02142 | Middlesex County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $148K | $131K | +$17K |
| Below Poverty Level | 7.5% | 7.7% | -0.2% |
| Median Age | 30.90 | 38.90 | -8.00 |
| Total Population | 4,737 | 1,638,365 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 1.82 | 2.49 | -0.67 |
| Owner-Occupied | 6.9% | 61.3% | -54.4% |
| Worked From Home | 30.6% | 24.7% | +5.9% |
| Mean Commute | 23.10 | 29.90 | -6.80 |
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 1.0% to 1,638,365: residents under 18 are up 0.1% and those 65 and over are up 2.9%.
County median household income is $131K, 7.7% of residents are below the poverty level, 24.7% work from home.