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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 −10.5% YoY. inventory, +100.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 10.5% YoY while the median home got down 12.8% bigger, so value per square foot is up 3.6%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 60502 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 21.4% of this ZIP's 8,499 occupied households, on a median household income of $157K.
| Measure | ZIP 60502 | DuPage County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $157K | $112K | +$45K |
| Below Poverty Level | 5.2% | 6.6% | -1.4% |
| Median Age | 39.10 | 40.20 | -1.10 |
| Total Population | 23,308 | 930,024 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.74 | 2.61 | +0.13 |
| Owner-Occupied | 78.6% | 73.1% | +5.5% |
| Worked From Home | 32.3% | 21.5% | +10.8% |
| Mean Commute | 30.40 | 27.70 | +2.70 |
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 0.3% to 930,024: residents under 18 are down 0.7% and those 65 and over are up 3.3%.
County median household income is $112K, 6.6% of residents are below the poverty level, 21.5% work from home.