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A tight-supply market with no rental pool to price against. Demand is visible here; the rent math is not.
What would change this read: the median listing price is −1.5% YoY. inventory, +126.7% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 1.5% YoY while the median home got up 1.7% bigger, so value per square foot is up 6.6%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 02169 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 59.0% of this ZIP's 28,707 occupied households, on a median household income of $96K.
| Measure | ZIP 02169 | Norfolk County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $96K | $131K | -$34K |
| Below Poverty Level | 11.2% | 6.7% | +4.5% |
| Median Age | 38.10 | 40.90 | -2.80 |
| Total Population | 62,993 | 730,082 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.17 | 2.51 | -0.34 |
| Owner-Occupied | 41.0% | 68.7% | -27.7% |
| Worked From Home | 22.3% | 22.8% | -0.5% |
| Mean Commute | 35.50 | 32.50 | +3.00 |
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 0.8% to 730,082: residents under 18 are down 0.3% and those 65 and over are up 2.8%.
County median household income is $131K, 6.7% of residents are below the poverty level, 22.8% work from home.