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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 +9.3% YoY. inventory, −28.3% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 9.3% YoY while the median home got up 6.7% bigger, so value per square foot is up 0.5%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 79109 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 42.2% of this ZIP's 18,570 occupied households, on a median household income of $70K.
| Measure | ZIP 79109 | Randall County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $70K | $84K | -$13K |
| Below Poverty Level | 13.1% | 9.7% | +3.4% |
| Median Age | 38.50 | 36.70 | +1.80 |
| Total Population | 43,578 | 146,070 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.33 | 2.52 | -0.19 |
| Owner-Occupied | 57.8% | 67.9% | -10.1% |
| Worked From Home | 7.6% | 7.5% | +0.1% |
| Mean Commute | 18.10 | 19.90 | -1.80 |
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 1.6% to 146,070: residents under 18 are up 1.1% and those 65 and over are up 3.1%.
County median household income is $84K, 9.7% of residents are below the poverty level, 7.5% work from home.