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An appreciation-lean market without the demand pressure to back it. The rent math runs thin.
What would change this read: a price correction (median already +1.8% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, +4.6% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 1.8% YoY while the median home got up 1.4% bigger, so value per square foot is down 5.1%.
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 $280K purchase rents for $1,500/mo: 0.54% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: 5 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 6 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 33 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), Manufactured (sold here, not rented), Multi-Family (rented here, not sold).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 36608 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 45.8% of this ZIP's 16,005 occupied households, on a median household income of $61K.
| Measure | ZIP 36608 | Mobile County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $61K | $59K | +$2K |
| Below Poverty Level | 16.6% | 16.2% | +0.4% |
| Median Age | 33.30 | 38.50 | -5.20 |
| Total Population | 38,890 | 412,590 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.36 | 2.50 | -0.14 |
| Owner-Occupied | 54.2% | 66.0% | -11.8% |
| Worked From Home | 9.5% | 8.3% | +1.2% |
| Mean Commute | 23.10 | 26.10 | -3.00 |
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 0.1% to 412,590: residents under 18 are down 0.7% and those 65 and over are up 2.1%.
County median household income is $59K, 16.2% of residents are below the poverty level, 8.3% work from home.