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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 −1.8% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, +11.7% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 1.8% YoY while the median home got down 5.2% bigger, so value per square foot is down 0.9%.
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 $575K purchase rents for $2,550/mo: 0.44% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: Studio (rent only, no matching sale price).
Sales here take about 43 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 4 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 84009 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 12.2% of this ZIP's 13,424 occupied households, on a median household income of $138K.
| Measure | ZIP 84009 | Salt Lake County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $138K | $97K | +$40K |
| Below Poverty Level | 4.2% | 8.1% | -3.9% |
| Median Age | 33.80 | 34.00 | -0.20 |
| Total Population | 44,186 | 1,196,523 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 3.29 | 2.77 | +0.52 |
| Owner-Occupied | 87.8% | 66.1% | +21.7% |
| Worked From Home | 26.2% | 19.7% | +6.5% |
| Mean Commute | 25.80 | 22.30 | +3.50 |
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 1.0% to 1,196,523: residents under 18 are down 1.3% and those 65 and over are up 3.7%.
County median household income is $97K, 8.1% of residents are below the poverty level, 19.7% work from home.