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A middling-yield market. Neither rent nor appreciation makes the case on its own.
What would change this read: a price correction (median already +49.9% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, +18.8% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 49.9% YoY while the median home got down 16.9% bigger, so value per square foot is up 7.1%.
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 $134K purchase rents for $975/mo: 0.73% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 44504 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 55.9% of this ZIP's 1,989 occupied households, on a median household income of $45K.
| Measure | ZIP 44504 | Mahoning County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $45K | $57K | -$12K |
| Below Poverty Level | 28.8% | 18.9% | +9.9% |
| Median Age | 36.20 | 43.20 | -7.00 |
| Total Population | 5,191 | 226,491 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.24 | 2.25 | -0.01 |
| Owner-Occupied | 44.1% | 70.3% | -26.2% |
| Worked From Home | 6.8% | 9.8% | -3.0% |
| Mean Commute | 15.50 | 22.50 | -7.00 |
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 0.3% to 226,491: residents under 18 are down 0.5% and those 65 and over are up 1.8%.
County median household income is $57K, 18.9% of residents are below the poverty level, 9.8% work from home.