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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 +10.9% YoY. inventory, −2.9% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 10.9% YoY while the median home got down 10.3% bigger, so value per square foot is up 5.2%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 35234 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 46.3% of this ZIP's 1,605 occupied households, on a median household income of $27K.
| Measure | ZIP 35234 | Jefferson County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $27K | $66K | -$40K |
| Below Poverty Level | 32.3% | 15.7% | +16.6% |
| Median Age | 42.00 | 37.70 | +4.30 |
| Total Population | 3,879 | 667,755 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.01 | 2.40 | -0.39 |
| Owner-Occupied | 53.7% | 63.9% | -10.2% |
| Worked From Home | 5.0% | 11.1% | -6.1% |
| Mean Commute | 16.40 | 24.10 | -7.70 |
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 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.