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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 −3.5% YoY. inventory, +15.7% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 3.5% YoY while the median home got down 0.1% bigger, so value per square foot is down 3.6%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 56303 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 36.7% of this ZIP's 11,184 occupied households, on a median household income of $65K.
| Measure | ZIP 56303 | Stearns County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $65K | $77K | -$12K |
| Below Poverty Level | 16.4% | 12.9% | +3.5% |
| Median Age | 36.70 | 35.10 | +1.60 |
| Total Population | 25,827 | 160,865 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.21 | 2.50 | -0.29 |
| Owner-Occupied | 63.3% | 67.9% | -4.5% |
| Worked From Home | 8.1% | 10.6% | -2.5% |
| Mean Commute | 19.60 | 21.70 | -2.10 |
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 0.9% to 160,865: residents under 18 are up 1.2% and those 65 and over are up 3.0%.
County median household income is $77K, 12.9% of residents are below the poverty level, 10.6% work from home.