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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 −0.4% YoY. inventory, +145.4% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 0.4% YoY while the median home got down 11.5% bigger, so value per square foot is up 4.0%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 02144 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 63.4% of this ZIP's 11,357 occupied households, on a median household income of $150K.
| Measure | ZIP 02144 | Middlesex County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $150K | $131K | +$19K |
| Below Poverty Level | 10.7% | 7.7% | +3.0% |
| Median Age | 31.80 | 38.90 | -7.10 |
| Total Population | 25,448 | 1,638,365 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.21 | 2.49 | -0.28 |
| Owner-Occupied | 36.6% | 61.3% | -24.7% |
| Worked From Home | 31.0% | 24.7% | +6.3% |
| Mean Commute | 31.60 | 29.90 | +1.70 |
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.