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A market with no active rental pool to price against. The sale-side figures below are the whole picture.
What would change this read: the median listing price is +2.9% YoY. inventory, +14.1% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 2.9% YoY while the median home got up 1.3% bigger, so value per square foot is down 5.8%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 97138 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 41.7% of this ZIP's 5,214 occupied households, on a median household income of $60K.
| Measure | ZIP 97138 | Clatsop County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $60K | $72K | -$11K |
| Below Poverty Level | 14.8% | 12.3% | +2.5% |
| Median Age | 48.60 | 46.00 | +2.60 |
| Total Population | 11,035 | 41,363 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.09 | 2.26 | -0.17 |
| Owner-Occupied | 58.3% | 63.2% | -5.0% |
| Worked From Home | 14.8% | 13.6% | +1.2% |
| Mean Commute | 22.30 | 21.60 | +0.70 |
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 0.0% to 41,363: residents under 18 are down 1.8% and those 65 and over are up 3.2%.
County median household income is $72K, 12.3% of residents are below the poverty level, 13.6% work from home.