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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 −7.9% YoY. inventory, +142.9% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 7.9% YoY while the median home got up 0.2% bigger, so value per square foot is down 17.7%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 49440 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 74.6% of this ZIP's 761 occupied households, on a median household income of $47K.
| Measure | ZIP 49440 | Muskegon County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $47K | $65K | -$18K |
| Below Poverty Level | 18.7% | 14.1% | +4.6% |
| Median Age | 33.90 | 40.00 | -6.10 |
| Total Population | 1,492 | 175,961 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 1.96 | 2.51 | -0.55 |
| Owner-Occupied | 25.4% | 78.1% | -52.7% |
| Worked From Home | 5.4% | 7.2% | -1.8% |
| Mean Commute | 16.60 | 21.60 | -5.00 |
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 175,961: residents under 18 are down 0.7% and those 65 and over are up 2.8%.
County median household income is $65K, 14.1% of residents are below the poverty level, 7.2% work from home.