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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 +0.5% YoY. inventory, +36.6% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 0.5% YoY while the median home got up 3.0% bigger, so value per square foot is up 4.8%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 02143 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 69.0% of this ZIP's 12,283 occupied households, on a median household income of $131K.
| Measure | ZIP 02143 | Middlesex County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $131K | $131K | -$94 |
| Below Poverty Level | 8.9% | 7.7% | +1.2% |
| Median Age | 32.10 | 38.90 | -6.80 |
| Total Population | 25,513 | 1,638,365 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.06 | 2.49 | -0.43 |
| Owner-Occupied | 31.0% | 61.3% | -30.3% |
| Worked From Home | 33.3% | 24.7% | +8.6% |
| Mean Commute | 29.40 | 29.90 | -0.50 |
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.