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An appreciation-lean market without the demand pressure to back it. The rent math runs thin.
What would change this read: a price correction (median already −9.8% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, −37.1% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 9.8% YoY while the median home got down 11.3% bigger, so value per square foot is down 9.0%.
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 $229K purchase rents for $1,250/mo: 0.55% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: 1 BR (rent only, no matching sale price), 3 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Not shown: Townhouse (no rent per sq ft reported).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 45218 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 32.7% of this ZIP's 1,546 occupied households, on a median household income of $71K.
| Measure | ZIP 45218 | Hamilton County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $71K | $72K | -$1K |
| Below Poverty Level | 9.0% | 15.0% | -6.0% |
| Median Age | 39.50 | 36.90 | +2.60 |
| Total Population | 3,836 | 830,774 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.43 | 2.29 | +0.14 |
| Owner-Occupied | 67.3% | 59.3% | +8.0% |
| Worked From Home | 16.5% | 15.3% | +1.2% |
| Mean Commute | 24.20 | 22.80 | +1.40 |
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.