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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 +0.7% YoY. inventory, +13.6% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 0.7% YoY while the median home got up 2.5% bigger, so value per square foot is down 6.4%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 49508 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 39.3% of this ZIP's 15,674 occupied households, on a median household income of $70K.
| Measure | ZIP 49508 | Kent County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $70K | $83K | -$13K |
| Below Poverty Level | 10.8% | 10.1% | +0.7% |
| Median Age | 35.30 | 35.90 | -0.60 |
| Total Population | 42,720 | 663,150 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.69 | 2.54 | +0.15 |
| Owner-Occupied | 60.7% | 70.3% | -9.7% |
| Worked From Home | 11.1% | 14.3% | -3.2% |
| Mean Commute | 20.80 | 21.00 | -0.20 |
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 0.7% to 663,150: residents under 18 are down 0.3% and those 65 and over are up 3.5%.
County median household income is $83K, 10.1% of residents are below the poverty level, 14.3% work from home.