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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 −0.5% YoY) outrunning rents would pull rent-to-price back under 0.8%/mo and weaken the cash-flow case. inventory, +6.4% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 0.5% YoY while the median home got up 0.6% bigger, so value per square foot is up 3.1%.
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 $175K purchase rents for $1,400/mo: 0.80% 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), 8 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 24 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 3 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented), Multi-Family (no rental days-on-market reported).
Not shown: Multi-Family (no rent per sq ft reported).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 19139 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 61.2% of this ZIP's 18,906 occupied households, on a median household income of $41K.
| Measure | ZIP 19139 | Philadelphia County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $41K | $62K | -$21K |
| Below Poverty Level | 28.6% | 21.4% | +7.2% |
| Median Age | 33.70 | 35.30 | -1.60 |
| Total Population | 43,090 | 1,579,706 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.23 | 2.26 | -0.03 |
| Owner-Occupied | 38.8% | 51.8% | -13.0% |
| Worked From Home | 14.9% | 18.4% | -3.5% |
| Mean Commute | 32.50 | 31.70 | +0.80 |
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.