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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 +8.1% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, −2.9% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 8.1% YoY while the median home got up 1.8% bigger, so value per square foot is up 1.6%.
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 $369K purchase rents for $1,195/mo: 0.32% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: Studio (rent only, no matching sale price), 1 BR (rent only, no matching sale price), 5 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 6 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 7 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 8 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Rentals here take about 10 days longer to find a tenant than sales take to go under contract (median across 4 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented), Manufactured (sold here, not rented).
Not shown: Condo (no rent per sq ft reported).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 72034 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 52.4% of this ZIP's 21,075 occupied households, on a median household income of $66K.
| Measure | ZIP 72034 | Faulkner County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $66K | $67K | -$2K |
| Below Poverty Level | 16.3% | 14.5% | +1.8% |
| Median Age | 32.40 | 34.10 | -1.70 |
| Total Population | 50,285 | 127,717 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.33 | 2.48 | -0.15 |
| Owner-Occupied | 47.6% | 62.3% | -14.7% |
| Worked From Home | 8.8% | 8.5% | +0.3% |
| Mean Commute | 23.60 | 25.50 | -1.90 |
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 1.4% to 127,717: residents under 18 are up 0.6% and those 65 and over are up 3.7%.
County median household income is $67K, 14.5% of residents are below the poverty level, 8.5% work from home.