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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 +17.6% YoY. inventory, +5.3% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 17.6% YoY while the median home got up 3.4% bigger, so value per square foot is up 9.9%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 66502 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 54.0% of this ZIP's 18,855 occupied households, on a median household income of $55K.
| Measure | ZIP 66502 | Riley County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $55K | $61K | -$6K |
| Below Poverty Level | 25.9% | 19.9% | +6.0% |
| Median Age | 25.90 | 25.50 | +0.40 |
| Total Population | 43,693 | 71,946 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.15 | 2.22 | -0.07 |
| Owner-Occupied | 46.0% | 46.1% | -0.1% |
| Worked From Home | 10.3% | 11.2% | -0.9% |
| Mean Commute | 17.60 | 16.30 | +1.30 |
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 71,946: residents under 18 are down 0.5% and those 65 and over are up 2.7%.
County median household income is $61K, 19.9% of residents are below the poverty level, 11.2% work from home.