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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 −1.8% YoY. inventory, −9.8% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 1.8% YoY while the median home got down 3.9% bigger, so value per square foot is up 1.4%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 95341 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 61.5% of this ZIP's 9,323 occupied households, on a median household income of $57K.
| Measure | ZIP 95341 | Merced County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $57K | $66K | -$8K |
| Below Poverty Level | 27.9% | 19.1% | +8.8% |
| Median Age | 26.60 | 31.80 | -5.20 |
| Total Population | 36,385 | 290,201 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 3.84 | 3.32 | +0.52 |
| Owner-Occupied | 38.5% | 54.0% | -15.5% |
| Worked From Home | 6.0% | 6.6% | -0.6% |
| Mean Commute | 28.30 | 31.30 | -3.00 |
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 1.6% to 290,201: residents under 18 are up 0.1% and those 65 and over are up 2.8%.
County median household income is $66K, 19.1% of residents are below the poverty level, 6.6% work from home.