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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 −0.0% YoY. inventory, +2.1% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 0.0% YoY while the median home got up 3.9% bigger, so value per square foot is down 1.4%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 28801 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 63.0% of this ZIP's 6,247 occupied households, on a median household income of $58K.
| Measure | ZIP 28801 | Buncombe County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $58K | $74K | -$16K |
| Below Poverty Level | 27.3% | 11.8% | +15.5% |
| Median Age | 43.10 | 42.60 | +0.50 |
| Total Population | 14,691 | 274,360 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.23 | 2.62 | -0.39 |
| Owner-Occupied | 37.0% | 66.2% | -29.2% |
| Worked From Home | 26.9% | 17.6% | +9.3% |
| Mean Commute | 14.80 | 21.10 | -6.30 |
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 0.9% to 274,360: residents under 18 are down 0.4% and those 65 and over are up 3.0%.
County median household income is $74K, 11.8% of residents are below the poverty level, 17.6% work from home.