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A cash-flow-lean market. Rents carry the return here rather than price growth.
What would change this read: price growth (median −11.1% YoY) outrunning rents would pull rent-to-price back under 0.8%/mo and weaken the cash-flow case. inventory, −5.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 11.1% YoY while the median home got up 0.7% bigger, so value per square foot is down 11.9%.
Min/max come from the active-listing pool; the median comes from Realtor's separate listing set — the two are not subsets of each other, so the median's position relative to the tiles above should not be read literally.
At the median, a $120K purchase rents for $1,375/mo: 1.15% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: 1 BR (rent only, no matching sale price), 7 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 34 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 3 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Condo (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 19132 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 51.1% of this ZIP's 14,473 occupied households, on a median household income of $33K.
| Measure | ZIP 19132 | Philadelphia County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $33K | $62K | -$29K |
| Below Poverty Level | 35.1% | 21.4% | +13.7% |
| Median Age | 38.40 | 35.30 | +3.10 |
| Total Population | 33,006 | 1,579,706 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.26 | 2.26 | 0.00 |
| Owner-Occupied | 48.9% | 51.8% | -2.9% |
| Worked From Home | 14.4% | 18.4% | -4.0% |
| Mean Commute | 35.60 | 31.70 | +3.90 |
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 down 0.2% to 1,579,706: residents under 18 are down 1.2% and those 65 and over are up 2.2%.
County median household income is $62K, 21.4% of residents are below the poverty level, 18.4% work from home.