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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 +17.3% YoY. inventory, +9.2% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 17.3% YoY while the median home got down 9.7% bigger, so value per square foot is up 18.0%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 49444 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 30.7% of this ZIP's 10,192 occupied households, on a median household income of $53K.
| Measure | ZIP 49444 | Muskegon County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $53K | $65K | -$12K |
| Below Poverty Level | 21.1% | 14.1% | +7.0% |
| Median Age | 37.60 | 40.00 | -2.40 |
| Total Population | 26,372 | 175,961 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.54 | 2.51 | +0.03 |
| Owner-Occupied | 69.3% | 78.1% | -8.7% |
| Worked From Home | 6.9% | 7.2% | -0.3% |
| Mean Commute | 19.20 | 21.60 | -2.40 |
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.