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A market with no active rental pool to price against. The sale-side figures below are the whole picture.
What would change this read: the median listing price is −4.0% YoY. inventory, −11.5% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 4.0% YoY while the median home got up 2.9% bigger, so value per square foot is down 2.7%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 36542 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 27.4% of this ZIP's 8,347 occupied households, on a median household income of $80K.
| Measure | ZIP 36542 | Baldwin County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $80K | $79K | +$864 |
| Below Poverty Level | 10.4% | 10.1% | +0.3% |
| Median Age | 50.00 | 43.90 | +6.10 |
| Total Population | 18,906 | 246,989 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.26 | 2.47 | -0.21 |
| Owner-Occupied | 72.6% | 77.6% | -5.0% |
| Worked From Home | 18.2% | 11.6% | +6.6% |
| Mean Commute | 22.40 | 27.00 | -4.60 |
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 up 2.9% to 246,989: residents under 18 are up 2.1% and those 65 and over are up 4.3%.
County median household income is $79K, 10.1% of residents are below the poverty level, 11.6% work from home.