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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 +13.2% YoY. inventory, −7.8% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 13.2% YoY while the median home got up 7.1% bigger, so value per square foot is up 4.0%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 29420 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 37.8% of this ZIP's 9,515 occupied households, on a median household income of $73K.
| Measure | ZIP 29420 | Dorchester County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $73K | $78K | -$6K |
| Below Poverty Level | 12.0% | 11.4% | +0.6% |
| Median Age | 34.70 | 38.00 | -3.30 |
| Total Population | 23,959 | 167,201 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.52 | 2.61 | -0.09 |
| Owner-Occupied | 62.2% | 75.5% | -13.4% |
| Worked From Home | 12.3% | 11.2% | +1.1% |
| Mean Commute | 27.60 | 31.30 | -3.70 |
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 1.8% to 167,201: residents under 18 are up 1.3% and those 65 and over are up 4.4%.
County median household income is $78K, 11.4% of residents are below the poverty level, 11.2% work from home.