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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 −10.5% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, −7.5% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 10.5% YoY while the median home got down 7.3% bigger, so value per square foot is up 6.9%.
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 $733K purchase rents for $1,920/mo: 0.26% 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), 8 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 6 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), Townhouse (rented here, not sold).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 45242 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 21.7% of this ZIP's 9,064 occupied households, on a median household income of $125K.
| Measure | ZIP 45242 | Hamilton County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $125K | $72K | +$52K |
| Below Poverty Level | 4.2% | 15.0% | -10.8% |
| Median Age | 41.30 | 36.90 | +4.40 |
| Total Population | 22,623 | 830,774 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.45 | 2.29 | +0.16 |
| Owner-Occupied | 78.3% | 59.3% | +19.0% |
| Worked From Home | 19.3% | 15.3% | +4.0% |
| Mean Commute | 20.20 | 22.80 | -2.60 |
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.