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A market with no active rental pool to price against. The sale-side figures below are the whole picture.
What would change this read: the median listing price is −18.3% YoY. inventory, +36.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 18.3% YoY while the median home got down 1.7% bigger, so value per square foot is down 14.0%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 68508 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 91.5% of this ZIP's 6,646 occupied households, on a median household income of $31K.
| Measure | ZIP 68508 | Lancaster County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $31K | $75K | -$44K |
| Below Poverty Level | 43.8% | 11.9% | +31.9% |
| Median Age | 21.50 | 34.30 | -12.80 |
| Total Population | 18,163 | 326,696 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 1.72 | 2.34 | -0.62 |
| Owner-Occupied | 8.5% | 58.9% | -50.4% |
| Worked From Home | 7.8% | 11.6% | -3.8% |
| Mean Commute | 14.50 | 19.00 | -4.50 |
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.