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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 +4.6% YoY. inventory, +25.4% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 4.6% YoY while the median home got up 7.3% bigger, so value per square foot is down 0.9%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 98136 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 36.0% of this ZIP's 7,921 occupied households, on a median household income of $149K.
| Measure | ZIP 98136 | King County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $149K | $125K | +$25K |
| Below Poverty Level | 5.6% | 8.6% | -3.0% |
| Median Age | 40.70 | 37.40 | +3.30 |
| Total Population | 17,252 | 2,287,171 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.17 | 2.39 | -0.22 |
| Owner-Occupied | 64.0% | 55.4% | +8.6% |
| Worked From Home | 38.3% | 29.2% | +9.1% |
| 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.