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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 −5.5% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, −11.1% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 5.5% YoY while the median home got down 5.5% bigger, so value per square foot is up 1.7%.
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.
At the median, a $767K purchase rents for $2,623/mo: 0.34% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: 6 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 29 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 3 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 33486 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 27.5% of this ZIP's 9,011 occupied households, on a median household income of $106K.
| Measure | ZIP 33486 | Palm Beach County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $106K | $84K | +$22K |
| Below Poverty Level | 8.4% | 11.3% | -2.9% |
| Median Age | 43.10 | 45.30 | -2.20 |
| Total Population | 23,232 | 1,533,806 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.53 | 2.49 | +0.04 |
| Owner-Occupied | 72.5% | 70.1% | +2.4% |
| Worked From Home | 19.1% | 15.4% | +3.7% |
| Mean Commute | 21.20 | 26.50 | -5.30 |
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 1.7% to 1,533,806: residents under 18 are up 1.5% and those 65 and over are up 2.7%.
County median household income is $84K, 11.3% of residents are below the poverty level, 15.4% work from home.