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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 −1.8% YoY. inventory, −4.1% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 1.8% YoY while the median home got down 1.5% bigger, so value per square foot is up 0.4%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 78572 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 29.0% of this ZIP's 26,723 occupied households, on a median household income of $54K.
| Measure | ZIP 78572 | Hidalgo County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $54K | $54K | -$40 |
| Below Poverty Level | 22.6% | 26.7% | -4.1% |
| Median Age | 37.80 | 30.50 | +7.30 |
| Total Population | 78,024 | 891,977 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.91 | 3.27 | -0.36 |
| Owner-Occupied | 71.0% | 67.5% | +3.5% |
| Worked From Home | 9.7% | 9.2% | +0.5% |
| Mean Commute | 20.60 | 22.50 | -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 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.