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An appreciation-lean market without the demand pressure to back it. The rent math runs thin.
What would change this read: a price correction (median already +2.3% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, −0.9% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 2.3% YoY while the median home got down 2.6% bigger, so value per square foot is up 0.7%.
Min/max come from the active-listing pool; the median comes from Realtor's separate listing set — the two are not subsets of each other, so the median's position relative to the tiles above should not be read literally.
At the median, a $265K purchase rents for $1,200/mo: 0.45% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: Studio (rent only, no matching sale price), 6 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 7 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 8 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 59 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 6 property types).
Not shown: Land (sold here, not rented).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 78501 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 50.7% of this ZIP's 21,734 occupied households, on a median household income of $48K.
| Measure | ZIP 78501 | Hidalgo County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $48K | $54K | -$6K |
| Below Poverty Level | 26.4% | 26.7% | -0.3% |
| Median Age | 36.00 | 30.50 | +5.50 |
| Total Population | 58,935 | 891,977 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.68 | 3.27 | -0.59 |
| Owner-Occupied | 49.3% | 67.5% | -18.1% |
| Worked From Home | 11.5% | 9.2% | +2.3% |
| Mean Commute | 19.90 | 22.50 | -2.60 |
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 1.3% to 891,977: residents under 18 are down 0.1% and those 65 and over are up 3.0%.
County median household income is $54K, 26.7% of residents are below the poverty level, 9.2% work from home.