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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 −1.6% YoY. inventory, −3.8% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 1.6% YoY while the median home got up 2.7% bigger, so value per square foot is down 6.1%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 28052 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 45.3% of this ZIP's 13,379 occupied households, on a median household income of $50K.
| Measure | ZIP 28052 | Gaston County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $50K | $67K | -$18K |
| Below Poverty Level | 23.6% | 13.5% | +10.1% |
| Median Age | 34.70 | 39.10 | -4.40 |
| Total Population | 36,272 | 234,881 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.66 | 2.48 | +0.18 |
| Owner-Occupied | 54.7% | 66.8% | -12.1% |
| Worked From Home | 10.0% | 12.4% | -2.4% |
| Mean Commute | 26.60 | 27.00 | -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 1.5% to 234,881: residents under 18 are up 0.9% and those 65 and over are up 2.7%.
County median household income is $67K, 13.5% of residents are below the poverty level, 12.4% work from home.