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An appreciation-lean market without the demand pressure to back it. The rent math runs thin.
What would change this read: a price correction (median already −4.6% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, −5.6% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 4.6% YoY while the median home got down 1.6% bigger, so value per square foot is down 0.7%.
Min/max come from the active-listing pool; the median comes from Realtor's separate listing set — the two are not subsets of each other, so the median's position relative to the tiles above should not be read literally.
Not shown: 8 BR (no price per sq ft reported).
At the median, a $343K purchase rents for $1,485/mo: 0.43% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: Studio (rent only, no matching sale price), 5 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 6 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 8 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 60 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 4 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 29730 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 39.7% of this ZIP's 24,375 occupied households, on a median household income of $69K.
| Measure | ZIP 29730 | York County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $69K | $89K | -$21K |
| Below Poverty Level | 13.5% | 8.4% | +5.1% |
| Median Age | 36.90 | 39.70 | -2.80 |
| Total Population | 58,199 | 293,673 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.35 | 2.55 | -0.20 |
| Owner-Occupied | 60.3% | 74.5% | -14.2% |
| Worked From Home | 11.8% | 17.5% | -5.7% |
| Mean Commute | 25.20 | 27.20 | -2.00 |
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 293,673: residents under 18 are up 0.6% and those 65 and over are up 4.2%.
County median household income is $89K, 8.4% of residents are below the poverty level, 17.5% work from home.