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A tight-supply market with no rental pool to price against. Demand is visible here; the rent math is not.
What would change this read: the median listing price is +6.9% YoY. inventory, +9.1% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 6.9% YoY while the median home got up 17.6% bigger, so value per square foot is down 0.7%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 44052 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 46.0% of this ZIP's 11,980 occupied households, on a median household income of $45K.
| Measure | ZIP 44052 | Lorain County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $45K | $73K | -$28K |
| Below Poverty Level | 27.0% | 12.1% | +14.9% |
| Median Age | 38.20 | 42.10 | -3.90 |
| Total Population | 28,282 | 317,129 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.35 | 2.42 | -0.07 |
| Owner-Occupied | 54.0% | 74.0% | -20.0% |
| Worked From Home | 5.0% | 11.7% | -6.7% |
| Mean Commute | 24.40 | 25.40 | -1.00 |
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 up 0.8% to 317,129: residents under 18 are down 0.1% and those 65 and over are up 3.1%.
County median household income is $73K, 12.1% of residents are below the poverty level, 11.7% work from home.