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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 −1.7% YoY. inventory, +17.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 1.7% YoY while the median home got down 5.5% bigger, so value per square foot is up 3.5%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 28540 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 38.2% of this ZIP's 19,048 occupied households, on a median household income of $66K.
| Measure | ZIP 28540 | Onslow County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $66K | $68K | -$3K |
| Below Poverty Level | 16.1% | 11.6% | +4.5% |
| Median Age | 30.20 | 27.70 | +2.50 |
| Total Population | 49,141 | 207,906 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.46 | 2.48 | -0.02 |
| Owner-Occupied | 61.8% | 63.7% | -1.9% |
| Worked From Home | 10.0% | 12.8% | -2.8% |
| Mean Commute | 23.80 | 22.40 | +1.40 |
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 down 0.3% to 207,906: residents under 18 are up 1.5% and those 65 and over are up 4.3%.
County median household income is $68K, 11.6% of residents are below the poverty level, 12.8% work from home.