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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 −2.8% YoY. inventory, −14.3% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 2.8% YoY while the median home got down 2.2% bigger, so value per square foot is up 4.2%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 78401 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 86.0% of this ZIP's 1,445 occupied households, on a median household income of $41K.
| Measure | ZIP 78401 | Nueces County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $41K | $67K | -$26K |
| Below Poverty Level | 34.9% | 17.4% | +17.5% |
| Median Age | 45.70 | 37.20 | +8.50 |
| Total Population | 4,344 | 352,955 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 1.82 | 2.63 | -0.81 |
| Owner-Occupied | 14.0% | 59.7% | -45.6% |
| Worked From Home | 1.9% | 5.4% | -3.5% |
| Mean Commute | 18.20 | 21.70 | -3.50 |
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 0.0% to 352,955: residents under 18 are down 1.0% and those 65 and over are up 3.1%.
County median household income is $67K, 17.4% of residents are below the poverty level, 5.4% work from home.