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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 +3.6% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, +4.8% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 3.6% YoY while the median home got up 5.9% bigger, so value per square foot is up 0.7%.
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 $500K purchase rents for $1,950/mo: 0.39% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: 1 BR (rent only, no matching sale price), 6 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 8 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 12 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 3 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented), Multi-Family (rented here, not sold).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 75077 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 22.3% of this ZIP's 15,147 occupied households, on a median household income of $127K.
| Measure | ZIP 75077 | Denton County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $127K | $111K | +$16K |
| Below Poverty Level | 2.8% | 7.1% | -4.3% |
| Median Age | 40.50 | 37.00 | +3.50 |
| Total Population | 42,950 | 979,561 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.82 | 2.68 | +0.14 |
| Owner-Occupied | 77.7% | 65.5% | +12.2% |
| Worked From Home | 23.1% | 23.5% | -0.4% |
| Mean Commute | 26.80 | 28.10 | -1.30 |
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 3.6% to 979,561: residents under 18 are up 1.8% and those 65 and over are up 6.7%.
County median household income is $111K, 7.1% of residents are below the poverty level, 23.5% work from home.