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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 −6.5% YoY. inventory, +30.6% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 6.5% YoY while the median home got down 10.3% bigger, so value per square foot is up 1.7%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 27517 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 32.6% of this ZIP's 12,608 occupied households, on a median household income of $129K.
| Measure | ZIP 27517 | Orange County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $129K | $90K | +$39K |
| Below Poverty Level | 5.6% | 12.5% | -6.9% |
| Median Age | 43.40 | 36.10 | +7.30 |
| Total Population | 29,564 | 149,678 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.32 | 2.40 | -0.08 |
| Owner-Occupied | 67.4% | 63.8% | +3.6% |
| Worked From Home | 29.9% | 26.8% | +3.1% |
| Mean Commute | 21.20 | 23.60 | -2.40 |
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 1.6% to 149,678: residents under 18 are down 1.0% and those 65 and over are up 4.3%.
County median household income is $90K, 12.5% of residents are below the poverty level, 26.8% work from home.