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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 +6.9% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, −26.1% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 6.9% YoY while the median home got up 0.7% bigger, so value per square foot is down 0.4%.
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 $269K purchase rents for $1,300/mo: 0.48% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: 5 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Rentals here take about 2 days longer to find a tenant than sales take to go under contract (median across 3 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented), Multi-Family (sold here, not rented), Townhouse (sold here, not rented).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 77504 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 58.0% of this ZIP's 8,958 occupied households, on a median household income of $51K.
| Measure | ZIP 77504 | Harris County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $51K | $75K | -$24K |
| Below Poverty Level | 19.6% | 16.3% | +3.3% |
| Median Age | 31.80 | 34.60 | -2.80 |
| Total Population | 25,779 | 4,838,303 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.83 | 2.73 | +0.10 |
| Owner-Occupied | 42.0% | 54.7% | -12.7% |
| Worked From Home | 7.3% | 12.9% | -5.6% |
| Mean Commute | 24.90 | 29.00 | -4.10 |
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.