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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 +7.3% YoY. inventory, −5.3% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 7.3% YoY while the median home got up 9.4% bigger, so value per square foot is down 5.5%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 95838 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 43.8% of this ZIP's 12,016 occupied households, on a median household income of $68K.
| Measure | ZIP 95838 | Sacramento County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $68K | $92K | -$24K |
| Below Poverty Level | 18.1% | 12.5% | +5.6% |
| Median Age | 32.90 | 37.50 | -4.60 |
| Total Population | 40,677 | 1,594,006 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 3.36 | 2.75 | +0.61 |
| Owner-Occupied | 56.2% | 59.0% | -2.8% |
| Worked From Home | 9.5% | 19.1% | -9.6% |
| Mean Commute | 25.20 | 27.30 | -2.10 |
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 0.6% to 1,594,006: residents under 18 are down 0.3% and those 65 and over are up 2.9%.
County median household income is $92K, 12.5% of residents are below the poverty level, 19.1% work from home.