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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 −2.9% YoY. inventory, +0.8% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 2.9% YoY while the median home got up 3.5% bigger, so value per square foot is down 7.5%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 19801 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 69.4% of this ZIP's 8,150 occupied households, on a median household income of $53K.
| Measure | ZIP 19801 | New Castle County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $53K | $91K | -$38K |
| Below Poverty Level | 25.4% | 10.1% | +15.3% |
| Median Age | 35.30 | 39.30 | -4.00 |
| Total Population | 16,327 | 577,961 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 1.96 | 2.51 | -0.55 |
| Owner-Occupied | 30.6% | 69.0% | -38.4% |
| Worked From Home | 15.8% | 17.6% | -1.8% |
| Mean Commute | 24.20 | 25.30 | -1.10 |
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 0.9% to 577,961: residents under 18 are up 0.1% and those 65 and over are up 3.6%.
County median household income is $91K, 10.1% of residents are below the poverty level, 17.6% work from home.