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A tight-supply market with no rental pool to price against. Demand is visible here; the rent math is not.
What would change this read: the median listing price is +6.7% YoY. inventory, −27.7% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 6.7% YoY while the median home got up 8.7% bigger, so value per square foot is down 5.5%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 79102 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 50.9% of this ZIP's 4,046 occupied households, on a median household income of $51K.
| Measure | ZIP 79102 | Potter County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $51K | $53K | -$2K |
| Below Poverty Level | 25.0% | 20.8% | +4.2% |
| Median Age | 33.20 | 35.10 | -1.90 |
| Total Population | 9,393 | 115,975 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.32 | 2.56 | -0.24 |
| Owner-Occupied | 49.1% | 57.3% | -8.2% |
| Worked From Home | 5.1% | 6.0% | -0.9% |
| Mean Commute | 21.40 | 21.00 | +0.40 |
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 down 0.6% to 115,975: residents under 18 are down 1.2% and those 65 and over are up 2.3%.
County median household income is $53K, 20.8% of residents are below the poverty level, 6.0% work from home.