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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 +23.1% YoY) outrunning rents would pull rent-to-price back under 0.8%/mo and weaken the cash-flow case. inventory, −30.4% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 23.1% YoY while the median home got up 10.0% 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.
Not shown: Studio (no price per sq ft reported).
At the median, a $80K purchase rents for $900/mo: 1.13% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: Studio (sale only, no matching rent), 1 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 5 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 100 days longer to go under contract than rentals.
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 36110 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 50.0% of this ZIP's 4,128 occupied households, on a median household income of $47K.
| Measure | ZIP 36110 | Montgomery County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $47K | $59K | -$12K |
| Below Poverty Level | 30.8% | 19.9% | +10.9% |
| Median Age | 32.30 | 37.10 | -4.80 |
| Total Population | 12,102 | 226,718 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.85 | 2.39 | +0.46 |
| Owner-Occupied | 50.0% | 57.8% | -7.8% |
| Worked From Home | 6.4% | 8.0% | -1.6% |
| Mean Commute | 20.90 | 21.60 | -0.70 |
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 0.2% 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.