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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 −6.6% YoY. inventory, −4.5% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 6.6% YoY while the median home got up 10.2% bigger, so value per square foot is down 4.5%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 35217 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 52.5% of this ZIP's 5,206 occupied households, on a median household income of $40K.
| Measure | ZIP 35217 | Jefferson County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $40K | $66K | -$26K |
| Below Poverty Level | 24.2% | 15.7% | +8.5% |
| Median Age | 40.40 | 37.70 | +2.70 |
| Total Population | 12,240 | 667,755 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.32 | 2.40 | -0.08 |
| Owner-Occupied | 47.5% | 63.9% | -16.4% |
| Worked From Home | 3.4% | 11.1% | -7.7% |
| Mean Commute | 26.50 | 24.10 | +2.40 |
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.