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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 −5.5% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, −14.3% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 5.5% YoY while the median home got down 17.7% bigger, so value per square foot is down 1.9%.
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 $650K purchase rents for $1,595/mo: 0.25% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 45249 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 33.2% of this ZIP's 5,638 occupied households, on a median household income of $106K.
| Measure | ZIP 45249 | Hamilton County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $106K | $72K | +$33K |
| Below Poverty Level | 8.9% | 15.0% | -6.1% |
| Median Age | 39.10 | 36.90 | +2.20 |
| Total Population | 14,490 | 830,774 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.57 | 2.29 | +0.28 |
| Owner-Occupied | 66.8% | 59.3% | +7.4% |
| Worked From Home | 25.2% | 15.3% | +9.9% |
| Mean Commute | 23.50 | 22.80 | +0.70 |
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.