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A cash-flow-lean market. Rents carry the return here rather than price growth.
What would change this read: price growth (median −99.3% YoY) outrunning rents would pull rent-to-price back under 0.8%/mo and weaken the cash-flow case. inventory, −50.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 99.3% YoY while the median home got down 23.4% bigger, so value per square foot is down 99.0%.
Min/max come from the active-listing pool; the median comes from Realtor's separate listing set — the two are not subsets of each other, so the median's position relative to the tiles above should not be read literally.
At the median, a $1K purchase rents for $1,500/mo: 171.43% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 62523 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 90.7% of this ZIP's 248 occupied households, on a median household income of $13K.
| Measure | ZIP 62523 | Macon County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $13K | $63K | -$49K |
| Below Poverty Level | 69.3% | 15.0% | +54.3% |
| Median Age | 33.70 | 40.60 | -6.90 |
| Total Population | 707 | 101,849 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 1.19 | 2.27 | -1.08 |
| Owner-Occupied | 9.3% | 70.2% | -60.9% |
| Worked From Home | 35.9% | 8.3% | +27.6% |
| Mean Commute | 10.60 | 19.40 | -8.80 |
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.