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A tight-supply, appreciation-lean market. The rent math runs thin; demand and tenant incomes are the story.
What would change this read: a price correction (median already +6.4% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, −23.2% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 6.4% YoY while the median home got down 14.0% bigger, so value per square foot is up 13.8%.
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 $680K purchase rents for $2,350/mo: 0.35% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: 1 BR (rent only, no matching sale price), 5 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 6 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 25 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 3 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented), Multi-Family (rented here, not sold).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 35243 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 45.9% of this ZIP's 8,825 occupied households, on a median household income of $100K.
| Measure | ZIP 35243 | Jefferson County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $100K | $66K | +$33K |
| Below Poverty Level | 6.9% | 15.7% | -8.8% |
| Median Age | 39.20 | 37.70 | +1.50 |
| Total Population | 18,176 | 667,755 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.06 | 2.40 | -0.34 |
| Owner-Occupied | 54.1% | 63.9% | -9.8% |
| Worked From Home | 14.9% | 11.1% | +3.8% |
| Mean Commute | 19.80 | 24.10 | -4.30 |
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.