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A market with no active rental pool to price against. The sale-side figures below are the whole picture.
What would change this read: the median listing price is −22.3% YoY. inventory, +141.7% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 22.3% YoY while the median home got down 28.4% bigger, so value per square foot is up 4.4%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 92121 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 50.4% of this ZIP's 1,575 occupied households, on a median household income of $136K.
| Measure | ZIP 92121 | San Diego County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $136K | $106K | +$30K |
| Below Poverty Level | 15.8% | 10.3% | +5.5% |
| Median Age | 32.70 | 37.30 | -4.60 |
| Total Population | 3,974 | 3,288,774 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.52 | 2.72 | -0.20 |
| Owner-Occupied | 49.6% | 54.6% | -5.0% |
| Worked From Home | 19.9% | 18.7% | +1.2% |
| Mean Commute | 18.10 | 25.50 | -7.40 |
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 0.2% to 3,288,774: residents under 18 are down 1.0% and those 65 and over are up 2.8%.
County median household income is $106K, 10.3% of residents are below the poverty level, 18.7% work from home.