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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 −2.9% YoY. inventory, +35.6% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 2.9% YoY while the median home got down 13.6% bigger, so value per square foot is up 12.7%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 18512 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 34.4% of this ZIP's 5,897 occupied households, on a median household income of $65K.
| Measure | ZIP 18512 | Lackawanna County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $65K | $66K | -$2K |
| Below Poverty Level | 12.8% | 14.4% | -1.6% |
| Median Age | 40.60 | 41.90 | -1.30 |
| Total Population | 12,986 | 216,146 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.18 | 2.35 | -0.17 |
| Owner-Occupied | 65.6% | 65.4% | +0.2% |
| Worked From Home | 9.4% | 10.0% | -0.6% |
| Mean Commute | 17.40 | 21.10 | -3.70 |
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 0.1% to 216,146: residents under 18 are down 0.2% and those 65 and over are up 1.6%.
County median household income is $66K, 14.4% of residents are below the poverty level, 10.0% work from home.