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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 −1.7% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, +9.3% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 1.7% YoY while the median home got down 5.4% bigger, so value per square foot is down 0.3%.
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 $349K purchase rents for $1,900/mo: 0.54% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: 6 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 8 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 26 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 34743 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 30.9% of this ZIP's 12,578 occupied households, on a median household income of $63K.
| Measure | ZIP 34743 | Osceola County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $63K | $73K | -$10K |
| Below Poverty Level | 12.6% | 12.8% | -0.2% |
| Median Age | 38.50 | 37.10 | +1.40 |
| Total Population | 40,030 | 427,415 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 3.18 | 2.98 | +0.20 |
| Owner-Occupied | 69.1% | 65.3% | +3.8% |
| Worked From Home | 9.3% | 13.3% | -4.0% |
| Mean Commute | 30.50 | 35.20 | -4.70 |
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 5.0% to 427,415: residents under 18 are up 4.4% and those 65 and over are up 5.1%.
County median household income is $73K, 12.8% of residents are below the poverty level, 13.3% work from home.