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A cash-flow-lean market. Rents carry the return here rather than price growth.
What would change this read: price growth (median −7.2% YoY) outrunning rents would pull rent-to-price back under 0.8%/mo and weaken the cash-flow case. inventory, +6.9% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 7.2% YoY while the median home got down 8.0% bigger, so value per square foot is up 1.9%.
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 $130K purchase rents for $1,050/mo: 0.81% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: Studio (rent only, no matching sale price), 8 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 56 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 2 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Condo (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented), Manufactured (sold here, not rented).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 79107 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 44.0% of this ZIP's 10,294 occupied households, on a median household income of $41K.
| Measure | ZIP 79107 | Potter County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $41K | $53K | -$13K |
| Below Poverty Level | 31.7% | 20.8% | +10.9% |
| Median Age | 32.90 | 35.10 | -2.20 |
| Total Population | 36,662 | 115,975 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 3.04 | 2.56 | +0.48 |
| Owner-Occupied | 56.0% | 57.3% | -1.3% |
| Worked From Home | 3.7% | 6.0% | -2.3% |
| Mean Commute | 24.40 | 21.00 | +3.40 |
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.