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A tight-supply, appreciation-lean market. The rent math runs thin; demand and tenant incomes are the story.
What would change this read: a price correction (median already −4.3% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, −3.2% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 4.3% YoY while the median home got down 14.9% bigger, so value per square foot is down 5.1%.
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 $245K purchase rents for $900/mo: 0.37% 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), 5 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 6 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 21 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 3 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 44708 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 30.9% of this ZIP's 10,493 occupied households, on a median household income of $64K.
| Measure | ZIP 44708 | Stark County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $64K | $68K | -$4K |
| Below Poverty Level | 12.3% | 12.5% | -0.2% |
| Median Age | 45.20 | 41.80 | +3.40 |
| Total Population | 24,285 | 373,713 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.29 | 2.35 | -0.06 |
| Owner-Occupied | 69.1% | 69.2% | -0.2% |
| Worked From Home | 10.1% | 11.8% | -1.7% |
| Mean Commute | 17.70 | 21.70 | -4.00 |
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 0.0% 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.