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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 −3.1% YoY. inventory, −16.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 3.1% YoY while the median home got up 6.8% bigger, so value per square foot is up 2.6%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 93108 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 21.5% of this ZIP's 4,618 occupied households, on a median household income of $230K.
| Measure | ZIP 93108 | Santa Barbara County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $230K | $98K | +$132K |
| Below Poverty Level | 7.1% | 14.7% | -7.6% |
| Median Age | 54.50 | 34.60 | +19.90 |
| Total Population | 11,526 | 443,701 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.23 | 2.81 | -0.58 |
| Owner-Occupied | 78.5% | 52.4% | +26.1% |
| Worked From Home | 30.7% | 13.4% | +17.3% |
| Mean Commute | 21.70 | 20.80 | +0.90 |
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 443,701: residents under 18 are down 0.2% and those 65 and over are up 2.4%.
County median household income is $98K, 14.7% of residents are below the poverty level, 13.4% work from home.