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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 −3.9% YoY. inventory, +3.5% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 3.9% YoY while the median home got down 2.8% bigger, so value per square foot is down 5.8%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 80226 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 47.9% of this ZIP's 13,780 occupied households, on a median household income of $82K.
| Measure | ZIP 80226 | Jefferson County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $82K | $111K | -$28K |
| Below Poverty Level | 8.7% | 6.7% | +2.0% |
| Median Age | 37.80 | 40.50 | -2.70 |
| Total Population | 31,573 | 579,377 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.21 | 2.36 | -0.15 |
| Owner-Occupied | 52.1% | 70.7% | -18.6% |
| Worked From Home | 22.3% | 25.4% | -3.1% |
| Mean Commute | 24.10 | 26.00 | -1.90 |
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 0.1% to 579,377: residents under 18 are down 2.1% and those 65 and over are up 2.5%.
County median household income is $111K, 6.7% of residents are below the poverty level, 25.4% work from home.