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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 −8.8% YoY. inventory, +1.1% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 8.8% YoY while the median home got down 14.3% bigger, so value per square foot is up 2.6%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 98106 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 41.3% of this ZIP's 11,791 occupied households, on a median household income of $124K.
| Measure | ZIP 98106 | King County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $124K | $125K | -$534 |
| Below Poverty Level | 8.8% | 8.6% | +0.2% |
| Median Age | 36.30 | 37.40 | -1.10 |
| Total Population | 28,690 | 2,287,171 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.40 | 2.39 | +0.01 |
| Owner-Occupied | 58.7% | 55.4% | +3.3% |
| Worked From Home | 25.6% | 29.2% | -3.6% |
| Mean Commute | 29.40 | 27.60 | +1.80 |
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.