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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 −53.3% YoY. inventory, −82.5% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 53.3% YoY while the median home got down 11.5% bigger, so value per square foot is down 26.1%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 78409 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 39.1% of this ZIP's 1,054 occupied households, on a median household income of $60K.
| Measure | ZIP 78409 | Nueces County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $60K | $67K | -$7K |
| Below Poverty Level | 13.7% | 17.4% | -3.7% |
| Median Age | 32.60 | 37.20 | -4.60 |
| Total Population | 2,937 | 352,955 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.78 | 2.63 | +0.15 |
| Owner-Occupied | 60.9% | 59.7% | +1.2% |
| Worked From Home | 2.4% | 5.4% | -3.0% |
| Mean Commute | 24.10 | 21.70 | +2.40 |
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.