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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 −5.8% YoY. inventory, −11.4% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 5.8% YoY while the median home got down 2.7% bigger, so value per square foot is up 7.6%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 96002 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 39.8% of this ZIP's 12,882 occupied households, on a median household income of $73K.
| Measure | ZIP 96002 | Shasta County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $73K | $73K | +$586 |
| Below Poverty Level | 10.4% | 13.3% | -2.9% |
| Median Age | 39.60 | 41.70 | -2.10 |
| Total Population | 33,783 | 181,436 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.56 | 2.50 | +0.06 |
| Owner-Occupied | 60.2% | 65.6% | -5.3% |
| Worked From Home | 10.6% | 9.7% | +0.9% |
| Mean Commute | 16.40 | 19.80 | -3.40 |
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 181,436: residents under 18 are down 0.6% and those 65 and over are up 1.1%.
County median household income is $73K, 13.3% of residents are below the poverty level, 9.7% work from home.