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A cash-flow-lean market. Rents carry the return here rather than price growth.
What would change this read: price growth (median −35.9% YoY) outrunning rents would pull rent-to-price back under 0.8%/mo and weaken the cash-flow case. inventory, +200.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 35.9% YoY while the median home got down 14.6% bigger, so value per square foot is down 21.4%.
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 $45K purchase rents for $750/mo: 1.67% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: Townhouse (no rent per sq ft reported).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 44506 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 50.7% of this ZIP's 1,142 occupied households, on a median household income of $21K.
| Measure | ZIP 44506 | Mahoning County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $21K | $57K | -$36K |
| Below Poverty Level | 44.6% | 18.9% | +25.7% |
| Median Age | 42.20 | 43.20 | -1.00 |
| Total Population | 2,096 | 226,491 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 1.84 | 2.25 | -0.41 |
| Owner-Occupied | 49.3% | 70.3% | -21.0% |
| Worked From Home | 18.8% | 9.8% | +9.0% |
| Mean Commute | 14.80 | 22.50 | -7.70 |
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.