A tight-supply market with no rental pool to price against. Demand is visible here; the rent math is not.
What would change this read: the median listing price is −8.2% YoY. inventory, −24.9% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 8.2% YoY while the median home got down 7.1% bigger, so value per square foot is down 2.6%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 32817 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 43.5% of this ZIP's 12,387 occupied households, on a median household income of $81K.
| Measure | ZIP 32817 | Orange County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $81K | $80K | +$992 |
| Below Poverty Level | 15.7% | 13.0% | +2.7% |
| Median Age | 31.00 | 36.60 | -5.60 |
| Total Population | 37,014 | 1,471,937 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.71 | 2.72 | -0.01 |
| Owner-Occupied | 56.5% | 56.8% | -0.3% |
| Worked From Home | 14.8% | 17.7% | -2.9% |
| Mean Commute | 26.40 | 28.00 | -1.60 |
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 2.2% to 1,471,937: residents under 18 are up 1.3% and those 65 and over are up 4.4%.
County median household income is $80K, 13.0% of residents are below the poverty level, 17.7% work from home.