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A tight-supply market with no rental pool to price against. Demand is visible here; the rent math is not.
What would change this read: the median listing price is +5.5% YoY. inventory, +57.1% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 5.5% YoY while the median home got up 37.3% bigger, so value per square foot is down 8.7%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 55812 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 57.4% of this ZIP's 3,903 occupied households, on a median household income of $66K.
| Measure | ZIP 55812 | St. Louis County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $66K | $70K | -$5K |
| Below Poverty Level | 25.6% | 13.2% | +12.4% |
| Median Age | 23.20 | 41.20 | -18.00 |
| Total Population | 10,859 | 200,123 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.21 | 2.20 | +0.01 |
| Owner-Occupied | 42.6% | 71.2% | -28.6% |
| Worked From Home | 15.4% | 11.2% | +4.2% |
| Mean Commute | 16.20 | 19.90 | -3.70 |
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 0.0% to 200,123: residents under 18 are down 1.0% and those 65 and over are up 2.6%.
County median household income is $70K, 13.2% of residents are below the poverty level, 11.2% work from home.