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A market with no active rental pool to price against. The sale-side figures below are the whole picture.
What would change this read: the median listing price is +0.0% YoY. inventory, −5.5% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 0.0% YoY while the median home got up 0.4% bigger, so value per square foot is down 1.7%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 76542 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 34.7% of this ZIP's 19,712 occupied households, on a median household income of $74K.
| Measure | ZIP 76542 | Bell County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $74K | $69K | +$5K |
| Below Poverty Level | 12.4% | 14.5% | -2.1% |
| Median Age | 32.30 | 32.30 | 0.00 |
| Total Population | 53,892 | 386,897 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.73 | 2.65 | +0.08 |
| Owner-Occupied | 65.3% | 56.5% | +8.8% |
| Worked From Home | 7.8% | 9.4% | -1.6% |
| Mean Commute | 26.10 | 23.90 | +2.20 |
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 1.9% to 386,897: residents under 18 are up 1.2% and those 65 and over are up 4.9%.
County median household income is $69K, 14.5% of residents are below the poverty level, 9.4% work from home.