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A cash-flow-lean market. Rents carry the return here rather than price growth.
What would change this read: price growth (median +6.9% YoY) outrunning rents would pull rent-to-price back under 0.8%/mo and weaken the cash-flow case. inventory, −6.9% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 6.9% YoY while the median home got up 4.6% bigger, so value per square foot is down 7.6%.
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.
At the median, a $105K purchase rents for $925/mo: 0.89% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: 1 BR (rent only, no matching sale price), 5 BR (rent only, no matching sale price), 8 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 69 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 3 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Condo (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 31903 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 71.9% of this ZIP's 7,982 occupied households, on a median household income of $32K.
| Measure | ZIP 31903 | Muscogee County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $32K | $58K | -$26K |
| Below Poverty Level | 35.4% | 19.0% | +16.4% |
| Median Age | 32.90 | 35.40 | -2.50 |
| Total Population | 20,644 | 203,711 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.57 | 2.43 | +0.14 |
| Owner-Occupied | 28.1% | 50.8% | -22.7% |
| Worked From Home | 5.6% | 12.1% | -6.5% |
| Mean Commute | 25.00 | 20.90 | +4.10 |
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 203,711: residents under 18 are down 0.7% and those 65 and over are up 2.5%.
County median household income is $58K, 19.0% of residents are below the poverty level, 12.1% work from home.