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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 +24.6% YoY. inventory, +7.5% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 24.6% YoY while the median home got up 11.3% bigger, so value per square foot is up 9.1%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 77098 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 65.9% of this ZIP's 9,442 occupied households, on a median household income of $117K.
| Measure | ZIP 77098 | Harris County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $117K | $75K | +$42K |
| Below Poverty Level | 9.6% | 16.3% | -6.7% |
| Median Age | 37.30 | 34.60 | +2.70 |
| Total Population | 17,210 | 4,838,303 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 1.82 | 2.73 | -0.91 |
| Owner-Occupied | 34.1% | 54.7% | -20.6% |
| Worked From Home | 21.4% | 12.9% | +8.5% |
| Mean Commute | 18.90 | 29.00 | -10.10 |
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.