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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 +6.5% YoY. inventory, +16.1% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 6.5% YoY while the median home got up 10.3% bigger, so value per square foot is down 0.5%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 68505 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 44.1% of this ZIP's 7,952 occupied households, on a median household income of $76K.
| Measure | ZIP 68505 | Lancaster County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $76K | $75K | +$1K |
| Below Poverty Level | 7.2% | 11.9% | -4.7% |
| Median Age | 30.80 | 34.30 | -3.50 |
| Total Population | 18,834 | 326,696 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.36 | 2.34 | +0.02 |
| Owner-Occupied | 55.9% | 58.9% | -3.0% |
| Worked From Home | 10.2% | 11.6% | -1.4% |
| Mean Commute | 18.60 | 19.00 | -0.40 |
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 326,696: residents under 18 are down 0.0% and those 65 and over are up 3.6%.
County median household income is $75K, 11.9% of residents are below the poverty level, 11.6% work from home.