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An appreciation-lean market without the demand pressure to back it. The rent math runs thin.
What would change this read: a price correction (median already −5.3% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, +0.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 5.3% YoY while the median home got down 0.9% bigger, so value per square foot is down 10.3%.
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 $580K purchase rents for $1,895/mo: 0.33% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Sales here take about 63 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 3 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 80202 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 77.3% of this ZIP's 12,279 occupied households, on a median household income of $114K.
| Measure | ZIP 80202 | Denver County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $114K | $95K | +$19K |
| Below Poverty Level | 10.1% | 11.2% | -1.1% |
| Median Age | 34.00 | 35.30 | -1.30 |
| Total Population | 18,589 | 718,877 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 1.48 | 2.10 | -0.62 |
| Owner-Occupied | 22.7% | 48.8% | -26.0% |
| Worked From Home | 34.4% | 27.3% | +7.1% |
| Mean Commute | 23.50 | 24.90 | -1.40 |
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 up 0.7% to 718,877: residents under 18 are down 1.0% and those 65 and over are up 2.3%.
County median household income is $95K, 11.2% of residents are below the poverty level, 27.3% work from home.