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A market with no active rental pool to price against. The sale-side figures below are the whole picture.
What would change this read: the median listing price is −7.2% YoY. inventory, +30.4% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 7.2% YoY while the median home got up 9.0% bigger, so value per square foot is down 17.7%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 49001 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 48.1% of this ZIP's 8,708 occupied households, on a median household income of $56K.
| Measure | ZIP 49001 | Kalamazoo County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $56K | $73K | -$16K |
| Below Poverty Level | 20.1% | 12.7% | +7.4% |
| Median Age | 32.80 | 35.00 | -2.20 |
| Total Population | 20,946 | 262,375 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.38 | 2.38 | 0.00 |
| Owner-Occupied | 51.9% | 64.5% | -12.6% |
| Worked From Home | 11.0% | 12.5% | -1.5% |
| Mean Commute | 19.40 | 20.70 | -1.30 |
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 0.4% to 262,375: residents under 18 are down 0.6% and those 65 and over are up 2.5%.
County median household income is $73K, 12.7% of residents are below the poverty level, 12.5% work from home.