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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 −1.5% YoY. inventory, −16.4% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 1.5% YoY while the median home got down 7.5% bigger, so value per square foot is up 7.6%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 79414 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 65.4% of this ZIP's 8,420 occupied households, on a median household income of $49K.
| Measure | ZIP 79414 | Lubbock County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $49K | $64K | -$15K |
| Below Poverty Level | 19.2% | 17.1% | +2.1% |
| Median Age | 28.90 | 31.90 | -3.00 |
| Total Population | 17,596 | 318,884 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.08 | 2.42 | -0.34 |
| Owner-Occupied | 34.6% | 55.5% | -20.9% |
| Worked From Home | 3.2% | 7.3% | -4.1% |
| Mean Commute | 14.10 | 17.10 | -3.00 |
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 1.4% to 318,884: residents under 18 are up 1.0% and those 65 and over are up 2.9%.
County median household income is $64K, 17.1% of residents are below the poverty level, 7.3% work from home.