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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 +5.6% YoY. inventory, +0.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 5.6% YoY while the median home got up 9.2% bigger, so value per square foot is up 6.2%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 95401 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 46.1% of this ZIP's 13,840 occupied households, on a median household income of $94K.
| Measure | ZIP 95401 | Sonoma County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $94K | $105K | -$11K |
| Below Poverty Level | 12.8% | 8.9% | +3.9% |
| Median Age | 39.20 | 42.90 | -3.70 |
| Total Population | 36,861 | 485,040 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.62 | 2.49 | +0.13 |
| Owner-Occupied | 53.9% | 62.6% | -8.7% |
| Worked From Home | 9.3% | 15.9% | -6.6% |
| Mean Commute | 22.90 | 25.10 | -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 485,040: residents under 18 are down 1.6% and those 65 and over are up 2.5%.
County median household income is $105K, 8.9% of residents are below the poverty level, 15.9% work from home.