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A market with no active rental pool to price against. The sale-side figures below are the whole picture.
What would change this read: the median listing price is −12.2% YoY. inventory, +47.6% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 12.2% YoY while the median home got down 6.9% bigger, so value per square foot is down 7.1%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 35215 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 43.4% of this ZIP's 17,045 occupied households, on a median household income of $53K.
| Measure | ZIP 35215 | Jefferson County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $53K | $66K | -$14K |
| Below Poverty Level | 19.2% | 15.7% | +3.5% |
| Median Age | 35.60 | 37.70 | -2.10 |
| Total Population | 43,903 | 667,755 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.56 | 2.40 | +0.16 |
| Owner-Occupied | 56.6% | 63.9% | -7.3% |
| Worked From Home | 8.5% | 11.1% | -2.6% |
| Mean Commute | 27.70 | 24.10 | +3.60 |
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 down 0.3% to 667,755: residents under 18 are down 0.6% and those 65 and over are up 1.7%.
County median household income is $66K, 15.7% of residents are below the poverty level, 11.1% work from home.