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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 −12.2% YoY. inventory, +14.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 12.2% YoY while the median home got down 6.1% bigger, so value per square foot is down 1.4%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 28803 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 44.9% of this ZIP's 13,459 occupied households, on a median household income of $77K.
| Measure | ZIP 28803 | Buncombe County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $77K | $74K | +$2K |
| Below Poverty Level | 9.6% | 11.8% | -2.2% |
| Median Age | 41.60 | 42.60 | -1.00 |
| Total Population | 33,718 | 274,360 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.46 | 2.62 | -0.16 |
| Owner-Occupied | 55.1% | 66.2% | -11.1% |
| Worked From Home | 16.7% | 17.6% | -0.9% |
| Mean Commute | 19.90 | 21.10 | -1.20 |
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.