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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 +2.4% YoY. inventory, −11.7% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 2.4% YoY while the median home got up 1.7% bigger, so value per square foot is down 2.0%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 94086 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 69.5% of this ZIP's 20,832 occupied households, on a median household income of $177K.
| Measure | ZIP 94086 | Santa Clara County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $177K | $164K | +$13K |
| Below Poverty Level | 6.9% | 7.1% | -0.2% |
| Median Age | 33.50 | 38.10 | -4.60 |
| Total Population | 49,746 | 1,902,047 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.38 | 2.82 | -0.44 |
| Owner-Occupied | 30.5% | 55.1% | -24.6% |
| Worked From Home | 27.3% | 23.9% | +3.4% |
| Mean Commute | 24.00 | 26.20 | -2.20 |
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 1,902,047: residents under 18 are down 2.2% and those 65 and over are up 3.0%.
County median household income is $164K, 7.1% of residents are below the poverty level, 23.9% work from home.