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A cash-flow-lean market. Rents carry the return here rather than price growth.
What would change this read: price growth (median +3.1% YoY) outrunning rents would pull rent-to-price back under 0.8%/mo and weaken the cash-flow case. inventory, +74.6% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 3.1% YoY while the median home got up 3.5% bigger, so value per square foot is down 5.2%.
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 $130K purchase rents for $1,075/mo: 0.83% 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), 7 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 39 days longer to go under contract than rentals.
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Condo (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented), Multi-Family (rented here, not sold).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 72209 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 61.5% of this ZIP's 12,072 occupied households, on a median household income of $40K.
| Measure | ZIP 72209 | Pulaski County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $40K | $63K | -$23K |
| Below Poverty Level | 29.1% | 16.7% | +12.4% |
| Median Age | 29.20 | 37.60 | -8.40 |
| Total Population | 31,607 | 399,818 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.61 | 2.27 | +0.34 |
| Owner-Occupied | 38.5% | 57.0% | -18.5% |
| Worked From Home | 9.7% | 11.9% | -2.2% |
| Mean Commute | 20.10 | 20.30 | -0.20 |
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.