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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 −2.4% YoY. inventory, +25.8% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 2.4% YoY while the median home got up 2.9% bigger, so value per square foot is up 2.5%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 20879 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 30.2% of this ZIP's 8,651 occupied households, on a median household income of $112K.
| Measure | ZIP 20879 | Montgomery County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $112K | $132K | -$20K |
| Below Poverty Level | 7.5% | 7.5% | 0.0% |
| Median Age | 36.40 | 40.20 | -3.80 |
| Total Population | 25,264 | 1,065,949 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.91 | 2.72 | +0.19 |
| Owner-Occupied | 69.8% | 65.3% | +4.5% |
| Worked From Home | 17.0% | 28.3% | -11.3% |
| Mean Commute | 31.30 | 31.90 | -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 0.8% to 1,065,949: residents under 18 are up 0.2% and those 65 and over are up 3.5%.
County median household income is $132K, 7.5% of residents are below the poverty level, 28.3% work from home.