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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 +0.4% YoY. inventory, +45.6% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 0.4% YoY while the median home got down 1.3% bigger, so value per square foot is up 19.4%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 78040 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 62.2% of this ZIP's 11,518 occupied households, on a median household income of $36K.
| Measure | ZIP 78040 | Webb County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $36K | $63K | -$27K |
| Below Poverty Level | 34.5% | 21.3% | +13.2% |
| Median Age | 30.10 | 30.00 | +0.10 |
| Total Population | 35,709 | 269,294 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 3.06 | 3.28 | -0.22 |
| Owner-Occupied | 37.8% | 64.7% | -26.9% |
| Worked From Home | 4.7% | 5.8% | -1.1% |
| Mean Commute | 20.20 | 22.10 | -1.90 |
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 0.6% to 269,294: residents under 18 are down 0.6% and those 65 and over are up 3.2%.
County median household income is $63K, 21.3% of residents are below the poverty level, 5.8% work from home.