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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 −43.7% YoY. inventory, −25.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 43.7% YoY while the median home got down 61.0% bigger, so value per square foot is up 32.2%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 17101 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 98.4% of this ZIP's 1,914 occupied households, on a median household income of $51K.
| Measure | ZIP 17101 | Dauphin County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $51K | $76K | -$25K |
| Below Poverty Level | 27.9% | 12.9% | +15.0% |
| Median Age | 33.30 | 39.40 | -6.10 |
| Total Population | 2,722 | 289,593 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 1.22 | 2.33 | -1.11 |
| Owner-Occupied | 1.6% | 63.1% | -61.5% |
| Worked From Home | 18.5% | 16.8% | +1.7% |
| Mean Commute | 15.10 | 21.50 | -6.40 |
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 289,593: residents under 18 are up 0.3% and those 65 and over are up 2.6%.
County median household income is $76K, 12.9% of residents are below the poverty level, 16.8% work from home.