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An appreciation-lean market without the demand pressure to back it. The rent math runs thin.
What would change this read: a price correction (median already −2.0% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, +8.3% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 2.0% YoY while the median home got down 2.5% bigger, so value per square foot is up 2.0%.
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 $260K purchase rents for $1,410/mo: 0.54% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: Studio (rent only, no matching sale price), 1 BR (rent only, no matching sale price), 4 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 6 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 23 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 2 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Condo (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented), Multi-Family (sold here, not rented).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 19149 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 43.4% of this ZIP's 19,423 occupied households, on a median household income of $58K.
| Measure | ZIP 19149 | Philadelphia County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $58K | $62K | -$3K |
| Below Poverty Level | 21.0% | 21.4% | -0.4% |
| Median Age | 34.80 | 35.30 | -0.50 |
| Total Population | 56,914 | 1,579,706 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.93 | 2.26 | +0.67 |
| Owner-Occupied | 56.6% | 51.8% | +4.8% |
| Worked From Home | 7.7% | 18.4% | -10.7% |
| Mean Commute | 34.10 | 31.70 | +2.40 |
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 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.