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A cash-flow-lean market. Rents carry the return here rather than price growth.
What would change this read: price growth (median +12.7% YoY) outrunning rents would pull rent-to-price back under 0.8%/mo and weaken the cash-flow case. inventory, +10.8% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 12.7% YoY while the median home got up 2.1% bigger, so value per square foot is up 7.5%.
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.
Not shown: 6 BR (no price per sq ft reported).
At the median, a $100K purchase rents for $995/mo: 1.00% 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 78 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), Townhouse (sold here, not rented).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 36107 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 61.8% of this ZIP's 3,237 occupied households, on a median household income of $32K.
| Measure | ZIP 36107 | Montgomery County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $32K | $59K | -$27K |
| Below Poverty Level | 30.4% | 19.9% | +10.5% |
| Median Age | 31.80 | 37.10 | -5.30 |
| Total Population | 8,001 | 226,718 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.41 | 2.39 | +0.02 |
| Owner-Occupied | 38.2% | 57.8% | -19.5% |
| Worked From Home | 10.8% | 8.0% | +2.8% |
| Mean Commute | 16.00 | 21.60 | -5.60 |
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 0.2% to 226,718: residents under 18 are down 0.1% and those 65 and over are up 2.0%.
County median household income is $59K, 19.9% of residents are below the poverty level, 8.0% work from home.