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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 −23.8% YoY. inventory, +66.2% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 23.8% YoY while the median home got down 26.3% bigger, so value per square foot is down 10.3%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 62522 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 38.5% of this ZIP's 6,102 occupied households, on a median household income of $51K.
| Measure | ZIP 62522 | Macon County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $51K | $63K | -$12K |
| Below Poverty Level | 24.9% | 15.0% | +9.9% |
| Median Age | 33.80 | 40.60 | -6.80 |
| Total Population | 15,185 | 101,849 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.33 | 2.27 | +0.06 |
| Owner-Occupied | 61.5% | 70.2% | -8.7% |
| Worked From Home | 8.3% | 8.3% | 0.0% |
| Mean Commute | 18.60 | 19.40 | -0.80 |
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 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.