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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 +30.8% YoY. inventory, +33.3% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 30.8% YoY while the median home got up 2.2% bigger, so value per square foot is up 1.4%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 77081 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 93.4% of this ZIP's 19,337 occupied households, on a median household income of $43K.
| Measure | ZIP 77081 | Harris County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $43K | $75K | -$32K |
| Below Poverty Level | 31.8% | 16.3% | +15.5% |
| Median Age | 28.50 | 34.60 | -6.10 |
| Total Population | 50,129 | 4,838,303 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.58 | 2.73 | -0.15 |
| Owner-Occupied | 6.6% | 54.7% | -48.1% |
| Worked From Home | 3.2% | 12.9% | -9.7% |
| Mean Commute | 29.60 | 29.00 | +0.60 |
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 1.7% to 4,838,303: residents under 18 are up 0.8% and those 65 and over are up 4.4%.
County median household income is $75K, 16.3% of residents are below the poverty level, 12.9% work from home.