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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 −0.3% YoY. inventory, +17.9% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 0.3% YoY while the median home got down 0.9% bigger, so value per square foot is up 1.8%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 19805 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 40.6% of this ZIP's 15,722 occupied households, on a median household income of $60K.
| Measure | ZIP 19805 | New Castle County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $60K | $91K | -$31K |
| Below Poverty Level | 19.6% | 10.1% | +9.5% |
| Median Age | 35.50 | 39.30 | -3.80 |
| Total Population | 41,402 | 577,961 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.61 | 2.51 | +0.10 |
| Owner-Occupied | 59.4% | 69.0% | -9.6% |
| Worked From Home | 10.7% | 17.6% | -6.9% |
| Mean Commute | 24.50 | 25.30 | -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 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.