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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 −1.4% YoY. inventory, +5.3% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 1.4% YoY while the median home got down 12.1% bigger, so value per square foot is up 7.5%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 62521 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 25.5% of this ZIP's 14,256 occupied households, on a median household income of $66K.
| Measure | ZIP 62521 | Macon County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $66K | $63K | +$4K |
| Below Poverty Level | 13.7% | 15.0% | -1.3% |
| Median Age | 42.00 | 40.60 | +1.40 |
| Total Population | 32,665 | 101,849 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.27 | 2.27 | 0.00 |
| Owner-Occupied | 74.5% | 70.2% | +4.3% |
| Worked From Home | 8.2% | 8.3% | -0.1% |
| Mean Commute | 18.40 | 19.40 | -1.00 |
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 down 0.7% to 101,849: residents under 18 are down 0.7% and those 65 and over are up 1.6%.
County median household income is $63K, 15.0% of residents are below the poverty level, 8.3% work from home.