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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 −2.8% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, +41.5% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 2.8% YoY while the median home got down 1.0% bigger, so value per square foot is down 3.2%.
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 $377K purchase rents for $1,600/mo: 0.42% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: 1 BR (rent only, no matching sale price), 5 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 6 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Rentals here take about 4 days longer to find a tenant than sales take to go under contract (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 45255 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 34.3% of this ZIP's 9,572 occupied households, on a median household income of $92K.
| Measure | ZIP 45255 | Hamilton County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $92K | $72K | +$20K |
| Below Poverty Level | 5.0% | 15.0% | -10.0% |
| Median Age | 44.10 | 36.90 | +7.20 |
| Total Population | 22,313 | 830,774 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.32 | 2.29 | +0.03 |
| Owner-Occupied | 65.7% | 59.3% | +6.3% |
| Worked From Home | 18.5% | 15.3% | +3.2% |
| Mean Commute | 25.40 | 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.