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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 −8.5% YoY. inventory, −8.8% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 8.5% YoY while the median home got down 2.1% bigger, so value per square foot is down 2.5%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 77550 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 60.0% of this ZIP's 11,860 occupied households, on a median household income of $45K.
| Measure | ZIP 77550 | Galveston County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $45K | $86K | -$41K |
| Below Poverty Level | 26.9% | 11.7% | +15.2% |
| Median Age | 39.60 | 38.80 | +0.80 |
| Total Population | 23,489 | 358,990 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 1.92 | 2.51 | -0.59 |
| Owner-Occupied | 40.0% | 67.6% | -27.6% |
| Worked From Home | 12.4% | 11.7% | +0.7% |
| Mean Commute | 17.90 | 27.90 | -10.00 |
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 1.2% to 358,990: residents under 18 are up 0.1% and those 65 and over are up 4.2%.
County median household income is $86K, 11.7% of residents are below the poverty level, 11.7% work from home.