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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 −4.4% YoY. inventory, +2.4% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 4.4% YoY while the median home got up 2.8% bigger, so value per square foot is down 7.8%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 78666 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 61.9% of this ZIP's 33,949 occupied households, on a median household income of $55K.
| Measure | ZIP 78666 | Hays County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $55K | $89K | -$34K |
| Below Poverty Level | 23.8% | 12.1% | +11.7% |
| Median Age | 26.90 | 34.10 | -7.20 |
| Total Population | 88,583 | 268,638 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.36 | 2.61 | -0.25 |
| Owner-Occupied | 38.1% | 64.1% | -26.1% |
| Worked From Home | 10.7% | 18.1% | -7.4% |
| Mean Commute | 25.50 | 31.30 | -5.80 |
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 4.8% to 268,638: residents under 18 are up 3.9% and those 65 and over are up 7.0%.
County median household income is $89K, 12.1% of residents are below the poverty level, 18.1% work from home.