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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 −24.2% YoY. inventory, −28.3% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 24.2% YoY while the median home got down 15.3% bigger, so value per square foot is down 9.2%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 94596 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 56.4% of this ZIP's 11,009 occupied households, on a median household income of $136K.
| Measure | ZIP 94596 | Contra Costa County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $136K | $127K | +$8K |
| Below Poverty Level | 6.5% | 8.4% | -1.9% |
| Median Age | 37.10 | 40.50 | -3.40 |
| Total Population | 23,417 | 1,165,012 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.12 | 2.78 | -0.66 |
| Owner-Occupied | 43.6% | 68.0% | -24.4% |
| Worked From Home | 26.9% | 21.3% | +5.6% |
| Mean Commute | 31.80 | 35.30 | -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 0.3% to 1,165,012: residents under 18 are down 0.8% and those 65 and over are up 2.8%.
County median household income is $127K, 8.4% of residents are below the poverty level, 21.3% work from home.