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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 +17.8% YoY. inventory, +16.4% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 17.8% YoY while the median home got up 9.1% bigger, so value per square foot is up 11.5%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 17104 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 54.4% of this ZIP's 7,522 occupied households, on a median household income of $47K.
| Measure | ZIP 17104 | Dauphin County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $47K | $76K | -$30K |
| Below Poverty Level | 29.6% | 12.9% | +16.7% |
| Median Age | 35.60 | 39.40 | -3.80 |
| Total Population | 18,541 | 289,593 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.45 | 2.33 | +0.12 |
| Owner-Occupied | 45.6% | 63.1% | -17.5% |
| Worked From Home | 8.3% | 16.8% | -8.5% |
| Mean Commute | 19.40 | 21.50 | -2.10 |
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.