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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 +317.7% YoY. inventory, −20.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 317.7% YoY while the median home got up 49.0% bigger, so value per square foot is up 144.4%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 52401 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 90.1% of this ZIP's 1,339 occupied households, on a median household income of $35K.
| Measure | ZIP 52401 | Linn County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $35K | $78K | -$43K |
| Below Poverty Level | 31.8% | 9.4% | +22.4% |
| Median Age | 34.40 | 39.00 | -4.60 |
| Total Population | 2,181 | 230,004 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 1.39 | 2.35 | -0.96 |
| Owner-Occupied | 9.9% | 73.5% | -63.7% |
| Worked From Home | 7.3% | 14.7% | -7.4% |
| Mean Commute | 15.50 | 19.30 | -3.80 |
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 0.2% to 230,004: residents under 18 are down 0.7% and those 65 and over are up 2.8%.
County median household income is $78K, 9.4% of residents are below the poverty level, 14.7% work from home.