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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 −14.2% YoY. inventory, +24.5% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 14.2% YoY while the median home got down 13.3% bigger, so value per square foot is down 3.1%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 39401 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 56.4% of this ZIP's 17,826 occupied households, on a median household income of $41K.
| Measure | ZIP 39401 | Forrest County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $41K | $54K | -$13K |
| Below Poverty Level | 31.1% | 21.0% | +10.1% |
| Median Age | 30.70 | 32.00 | -1.30 |
| Total Population | 42,531 | 78,272 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.26 | 2.45 | -0.19 |
| Owner-Occupied | 43.6% | 57.2% | -13.5% |
| Worked From Home | 3.8% | 4.0% | -0.2% |
| Mean Commute | 18.70 | 21.20 | -2.50 |
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 0.3% to 78,272: residents under 18 are down 0.1% and those 65 and over are up 1.0%.
County median household income is $54K, 21.0% of residents are below the poverty level, 4.0% work from home.