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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 +5.9% 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 up 5.9% YoY while the median home got down 0.2% bigger, so value per square foot is down 3.2%.
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 $487K purchase rents for $2,450/mo: 0.50% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Sales here take about 53 days longer to go under contract than rentals.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 80939 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 0.0% of this ZIP's 17 occupied households.
| Measure | ZIP 80939 | El Paso County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | -- | $90K | -- |
| Below Poverty Level | 0.0% | 8.5% | -8.5% |
| Median Age | 36.10 | 35.10 | +1.00 |
| Total Population | 62 | 742,999 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 3.65 | 2.48 | +1.17 |
| Owner-Occupied | 100.0% | 66.2% | +33.8% |
| Worked From Home | 0.0% | 16.8% | -16.8% |
| Mean Commute | -- | 23.50 | -- |
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 0.9% to 742,999: residents under 18 are down 0.4% and those 65 and over are up 3.6%.
County median household income is $90K, 8.5% of residents are below the poverty level, 16.8% work from home.