Compare with
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 −20.0% YoY. inventory, +21.6% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 20.0% YoY while the median home got down 2.9% bigger, so value per square foot is down 20.4%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 78231 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 33.8% of this ZIP's 3,978 occupied households, on a median household income of $109K.
| Measure | ZIP 78231 | Bexar County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $109K | $72K | +$37K |
| Below Poverty Level | 5.8% | 14.6% | -8.8% |
| Median Age | 41.20 | 34.80 | +6.40 |
| Total Population | 9,744 | 2,067,341 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.44 | 2.70 | -0.26 |
| Owner-Occupied | 66.2% | 58.8% | +7.3% |
| Worked From Home | 18.5% | 14.6% | +3.9% |
| Mean Commute | 20.50 | 25.70 | -5.20 |
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 1.5% to 2,067,341: residents under 18 are up 0.4% and those 65 and over are up 3.3%.
County median household income is $72K, 14.6% of residents are below the poverty level, 14.6% work from home.