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A middling-yield market. Neither rent nor appreciation makes the case on its own.
What would change this read: a price correction (median already −36.6% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, −18.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 36.6% YoY while the median home got down 20.9% bigger, so value per square foot is up 8.0%.
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 $183K purchase rents for $1,300/mo: 0.71% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: 3 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 4 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 2 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 2 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 72201 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 65.2% of this ZIP's 515 occupied households, on a median household income of $115K.
| Measure | ZIP 72201 | Pulaski County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $115K | $63K | +$52K |
| Below Poverty Level | 5.3% | 16.7% | -11.4% |
| Median Age | 38.30 | 37.60 | +0.70 |
| Total Population | 795 | 399,818 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 1.54 | 2.27 | -0.73 |
| Owner-Occupied | 34.8% | 57.0% | -22.2% |
| Worked From Home | 8.0% | 11.9% | -3.9% |
| Mean Commute | 12.60 | 20.30 | -7.70 |
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 0.2% to 399,818: residents under 18 are down 0.3% and those 65 and over are up 2.8%.
County median household income is $63K, 16.7% of residents are below the poverty level, 11.9% work from home.