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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 −8.3% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, +16.2% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 8.3% YoY while the median home got down 3.7% bigger, so value per square foot is down 6.9%.
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 $550K purchase rents for $1,849/mo: 0.34% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: 6 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 7 BR (rent only, no matching sale price), 8 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 66 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 4 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 80205 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 62.7% of this ZIP's 18,122 occupied households, on a median household income of $105K.
| Measure | ZIP 80205 | Denver County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $105K | $95K | +$10K |
| Below Poverty Level | 16.5% | 11.2% | +5.3% |
| Median Age | 33.10 | 35.30 | -2.20 |
| Total Population | 34,571 | 718,877 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 1.85 | 2.10 | -0.25 |
| Owner-Occupied | 37.3% | 48.8% | -11.4% |
| Worked From Home | 37.0% | 27.3% | +9.7% |
| Mean Commute | 24.70 | 24.90 | -0.20 |
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.