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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 −1.3% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, −2.9% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 1.3% YoY while the median home got down 10.4% bigger, so value per square foot is up 5.7%.
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 $300K purchase rents for $1,295/mo: 0.43% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: 5 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 8 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 3 property types).
Not shown: Condo (rented here, not sold), Townhouse (rented here, not sold).
Not shown: Multi-Family (no rent per sq ft reported).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 45212 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 51.3% of this ZIP's 10,127 occupied households, on a median household income of $72K.
| Measure | ZIP 45212 | Hamilton County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $72K | $72K | -$48 |
| Below Poverty Level | 16.4% | 15.0% | +1.4% |
| Median Age | 33.30 | 36.90 | -3.60 |
| Total Population | 21,526 | 830,774 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.10 | 2.29 | -0.19 |
| Owner-Occupied | 48.7% | 59.3% | -10.6% |
| Worked From Home | 16.7% | 15.3% | +1.4% |
| Mean Commute | 21.60 | 22.80 | -1.20 |
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 up 0.3% to 830,774: residents under 18 are down 0.2% and those 65 and over are up 2.7%.
County median household income is $72K, 15.0% of residents are below the poverty level, 15.3% work from home.