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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 +1.8% YoY. inventory, +15.1% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 1.8% YoY while the median home got up 7.7% bigger, so value per square foot is down 6.1%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 27539 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 16.9% of this ZIP's 8,709 occupied households, on a median household income of $146K.
| Measure | ZIP 27539 | Wake County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $146K | $106K | +$40K |
| Below Poverty Level | 2.5% | 8.1% | -5.6% |
| Median Age | 37.70 | 37.30 | +0.40 |
| Total Population | 25,878 | 1,178,653 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.97 | 2.51 | +0.46 |
| Owner-Occupied | 83.1% | 64.1% | +19.0% |
| Worked From Home | 34.2% | 29.1% | +5.1% |
| Mean Commute | 28.10 | 25.10 | +3.00 |
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 2.4% to 1,178,653: residents under 18 are up 0.7% and those 65 and over are up 5.5%.
County median household income is $106K, 8.1% of residents are below the poverty level, 29.1% work from home.