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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 +4.7% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, −6.6% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 4.7% YoY while the median home got down 0.8% bigger, so value per square foot is down 4.5%.
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 $531K purchase rents for $2,950/mo: 0.56% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: 7 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 10 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).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 20716 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 30.2% of this ZIP's 9,450 occupied households, on a median household income of $125K.
| Measure | ZIP 20716 | Prince George's County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $125K | $102K | +$23K |
| Below Poverty Level | 4.4% | 10.8% | -6.4% |
| Median Age | 43.50 | 38.50 | +5.00 |
| Total Population | 22,362 | 959,754 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.34 | 2.70 | -0.36 |
| Owner-Occupied | 69.8% | 62.3% | +7.5% |
| Worked From Home | 25.4% | 17.9% | +7.5% |
| Mean Commute | 35.40 | 35.20 | +0.20 |
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 0.4% to 959,754: residents under 18 are down 0.2% and those 65 and over are up 3.7%.
County median household income is $102K, 10.8% of residents are below the poverty level, 17.9% work from home.