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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 +18.8% YoY. inventory, +13.2% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 18.8% YoY while the median home got up 19.3% bigger, so value per square foot is down 3.1%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 68521 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 42.2% of this ZIP's 15,103 occupied households, on a median household income of $67K.
| Measure | ZIP 68521 | Lancaster County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $67K | $75K | -$7K |
| Below Poverty Level | 13.5% | 11.9% | +1.6% |
| Median Age | 33.00 | 34.30 | -1.30 |
| Total Population | 37,050 | 326,696 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.45 | 2.34 | +0.11 |
| Owner-Occupied | 57.8% | 58.9% | -1.2% |
| Worked From Home | 12.1% | 11.6% | +0.5% |
| Mean Commute | 18.30 | 19.00 | -0.70 |
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.