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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 +12.2% YoY. inventory, +6.6% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 12.2% YoY while the median home got up 1.6% bigger, so value per square foot is up 8.6%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 22305 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 65.4% of this ZIP's 7,681 occupied households, on a median household income of $114K.
| Measure | ZIP 22305 | Alexandria city | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $114K | $120K | -$6K |
| Below Poverty Level | 10.1% | 7.9% | +2.2% |
| Median Age | 34.90 | 37.70 | -2.80 |
| Total Population | 17,214 | 156,976 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.24 | 2.04 | +0.20 |
| Owner-Occupied | 34.6% | 42.1% | -7.5% |
| Worked From Home | 27.2% | 28.9% | -1.7% |
| Mean Commute | 26.30 | 28.40 | -2.10 |
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 0.1% 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.