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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 +6.1% YoY. inventory, +23.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 6.1% YoY while the median home got up 0.4% bigger, so value per square foot is up 4.5%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 08638 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 42.0% of this ZIP's 9,045 occupied households, on a median household income of $67K.
| Measure | ZIP 08638 | Mercer County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $67K | $101K | -$34K |
| Below Poverty Level | 17.8% | 10.3% | +7.5% |
| Median Age | 35.90 | 39.50 | -3.60 |
| Total Population | 22,816 | 385,864 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.43 | 2.56 | -0.13 |
| Owner-Occupied | 58.0% | 62.2% | -4.2% |
| Worked From Home | 11.0% | 19.5% | -8.5% |
| Mean Commute | 25.50 | 27.10 | -1.60 |
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 385,864: residents under 18 are up 0.9% and those 65 and over are up 2.6%.
County median household income is $101K, 10.3% of residents are below the poverty level, 19.5% work from home.