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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 −0.0% YoY. inventory, +8.8% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 0.0% YoY while the median home got up 8.6% bigger, so value per square foot is up 0.3%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 35226 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 16.7% of this ZIP's 14,435 occupied households, on a median household income of $125K.
| Measure | ZIP 35226 | Jefferson County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $125K | $66K | +$58K |
| Below Poverty Level | 4.8% | 15.7% | -10.9% |
| Median Age | 37.70 | 37.70 | 0.00 |
| Total Population | 38,588 | 667,755 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.66 | 2.40 | +0.26 |
| Owner-Occupied | 83.3% | 63.9% | +19.4% |
| Worked From Home | 14.4% | 11.1% | +3.3% |
| Mean Commute | 24.40 | 24.10 | +0.30 |
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 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.