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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 −15.4% YoY. inventory, −7.9% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 15.4% YoY while the median home got down 15.7% bigger, so value per square foot is up 9.8%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 19608 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 23.4% of this ZIP's 9,189 occupied households, on a median household income of $110K.
| Measure | ZIP 19608 | Berks County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $110K | $80K | +$30K |
| Below Poverty Level | 4.1% | 12.2% | -8.1% |
| Median Age | 43.90 | 39.90 | +4.00 |
| Total Population | 24,178 | 433,015 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.60 | 2.57 | +0.03 |
| Owner-Occupied | 76.6% | 71.3% | +5.3% |
| Worked From Home | 12.1% | 11.9% | +0.2% |
| Mean Commute | 26.00 | 25.40 | +0.60 |
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 433,015: residents under 18 are up 0.0% and those 65 and over are up 2.5%.
County median household income is $80K, 12.2% of residents are below the poverty level, 11.9% work from home.