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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 +27.0% YoY. inventory, −0.7% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 27.0% YoY while the median home got up 10.1% bigger, so value per square foot is up 7.4%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 49048 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 38.2% of this ZIP's 9,493 occupied households, on a median household income of $60K.
| Measure | ZIP 49048 | Kalamazoo County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $60K | $73K | -$12K |
| Below Poverty Level | 12.6% | 12.7% | -0.1% |
| Median Age | 36.10 | 35.00 | +1.10 |
| Total Population | 22,791 | 262,375 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.35 | 2.38 | -0.03 |
| Owner-Occupied | 61.8% | 64.5% | -2.7% |
| Worked From Home | 11.8% | 12.5% | -0.7% |
| Mean Commute | 21.30 | 20.70 | +0.60 |
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 0.4% 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.