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A middling-yield market with real competition. Neither rent nor appreciation dominates the case.
What would change this read: a price correction (median already +19.3% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, +25.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 19.3% YoY while the median home got down 13.3% bigger, so value per square foot is up 25.8%.
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 $117K purchase rents for $850/mo: 0.72% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: Studio (rent only, no matching sale price), 1 BR (rent only, no matching sale price), 6 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 8 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 7 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 2 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented).
Not shown: Multi-Family (no rent per sq ft reported).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 44703 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 67.2% of this ZIP's 3,596 occupied households, on a median household income of $32K.
| Measure | ZIP 44703 | Stark County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $32K | $68K | -$36K |
| Below Poverty Level | 39.1% | 12.5% | +26.6% |
| Median Age | 34.00 | 41.80 | -7.80 |
| Total Population | 8,070 | 373,713 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.24 | 2.35 | -0.11 |
| Owner-Occupied | 32.8% | 69.2% | -36.5% |
| Worked From Home | 6.9% | 11.8% | -4.9% |
| Mean Commute | 21.40 | 21.70 | -0.30 |
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 0.0% to 373,713: residents under 18 are down 0.4% and those 65 and over are up 2.0%.
County median household income is $68K, 12.5% of residents are below the poverty level, 11.8% work from home.