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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 −12.3% YoY) outrunning rents would pull rent-to-price back under 0.8%/mo and weaken the cash-flow case. inventory, +0.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 12.3% YoY while the median home got down 5.5% bigger, so value per square foot is down 1.2%.
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 $85K purchase rents for $931/mo: 1.10% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: 1 BR (rent only, no matching sale price), 5 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 39 days longer to go under contract than rentals.
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented), Multi-Family (rented here, not sold).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 44704 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 50.4% of this ZIP's 1,500 occupied households, on a median household income of $32K.
| Measure | ZIP 44704 | Stark County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $32K | $68K | -$36K |
| Below Poverty Level | 30.1% | 12.5% | +17.6% |
| Median Age | 34.60 | 41.80 | -7.20 |
| Total Population | 3,681 | 373,713 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.42 | 2.35 | +0.07 |
| Owner-Occupied | 49.6% | 69.2% | -19.6% |
| Worked From Home | 1.5% | 11.8% | -10.3% |
| Mean Commute | 17.80 | 21.70 | -3.90 |
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.