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A tight-supply market with no rental pool to price against. Demand is visible here; the rent math is not.
What would change this read: the median listing price is +3.0% YoY. inventory, +11.9% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 3.0% YoY while the median home got up 10.1% bigger, so value per square foot is down 1.7%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 22304 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 59.1% of this ZIP's 23,348 occupied households, on a median household income of $102K.
| Measure | ZIP 22304 | Alexandria city | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $102K | $120K | -$18K |
| Below Poverty Level | 9.9% | 7.9% | +2.0% |
| Median Age | 37.80 | 37.70 | +0.10 |
| Total Population | 48,613 | 156,976 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.06 | 2.04 | +0.02 |
| Owner-Occupied | 40.9% | 42.1% | -1.2% |
| Worked From Home | 23.9% | 28.9% | -5.0% |
| Mean Commute | 28.80 | 28.40 | +0.40 |
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 0.1% to 156,976: residents under 18 are down 0.8% and those 65 and over are up 3.2%.
County median household income is $120K, 7.9% of residents are below the poverty level, 28.9% work from home.