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An appreciation-lean market without the demand pressure to back it. The rent math runs thin.
What would change this read: a price correction (median already +7.3% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, −19.4% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 7.3% YoY while the median home got up 5.8% bigger, so value per square foot is down 6.1%.
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 $366K purchase rents for $1,795/mo: 0.49% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 68142 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 4.1% of this ZIP's 1,891 occupied households, on a median household income of $109K.
| Measure | ZIP 68142 | Douglas County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $109K | $80K | +$29K |
| Below Poverty Level | 7.9% | 11.8% | -3.9% |
| Median Age | 41.00 | 35.60 | +5.40 |
| Total Population | 4,505 | 590,736 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.38 | 2.43 | -0.05 |
| Owner-Occupied | 95.9% | 61.5% | +34.3% |
| Worked From Home | 24.3% | 16.1% | +8.2% |
| Mean Commute | 22.10 | 20.00 | +2.10 |
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 0.9% to 590,736: residents under 18 are up 0.3% and those 65 and over are up 3.4%.
County median household income is $80K, 11.8% of residents are below the poverty level, 16.1% work from home.