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A tight-supply market with no rental pool to price against. Demand is visible here; the rent math is not.
What would change this read: the median listing price is −6.0% YoY. inventory, −6.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 6.0% YoY while the median home got down 5.7% bigger, so value per square foot is up 1.8%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 77581 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 22.9% of this ZIP's 17,847 occupied households, on a median household income of $111K.
| Measure | ZIP 77581 | Brazoria County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $111K | $98K | +$13K |
| Below Poverty Level | 4.5% | 7.4% | -2.9% |
| Median Age | 37.50 | 36.70 | +0.80 |
| Total Population | 51,332 | 391,255 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.86 | 2.82 | +0.04 |
| Owner-Occupied | 77.1% | 74.1% | +2.9% |
| Worked From Home | 14.1% | 10.8% | +3.3% |
| Mean Commute | 32.70 | 30.60 | +2.10 |
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 2.5% to 391,255: residents under 18 are up 1.3% and those 65 and over are up 5.0%.
County median household income is $98K, 7.4% of residents are below the poverty level, 10.8% work from home.