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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 −9.5% YoY. inventory, +11.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 9.5% YoY while the median home got down 2.4% bigger, so value per square foot is down 7.1%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 98102 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 73.0% of this ZIP's 17,489 occupied households, on a median household income of $115K.
| Measure | ZIP 98102 | King County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $115K | $125K | -$10K |
| Below Poverty Level | 9.1% | 8.6% | +0.5% |
| Median Age | 33.80 | 37.40 | -3.60 |
| Total Population | 27,333 | 2,287,171 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 1.56 | 2.39 | -0.83 |
| Owner-Occupied | 27.0% | 55.4% | -28.4% |
| Worked From Home | 35.5% | 29.2% | +6.3% |
| Mean Commute | 24.90 | 27.60 | -2.70 |
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 1.1% to 2,287,171: residents under 18 are down 0.3% and those 65 and over are up 3.1%.
County median household income is $125K, 8.6% of residents are below the poverty level, 29.2% work from home.