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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 −9.0% YoY. inventory, +32.9% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 9.0% YoY while the median home got up 7.0% bigger, so value per square foot is down 5.3%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 98204 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 66.4% of this ZIP's 17,974 occupied households, on a median household income of $69K.
| Measure | ZIP 98204 | Snohomish County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $69K | $111K | -$43K |
| Below Poverty Level | 15.8% | 8.0% | +7.8% |
| Median Age | 32.60 | 38.60 | -6.00 |
| Total Population | 45,130 | 844,430 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.50 | 2.64 | -0.14 |
| Owner-Occupied | 33.6% | 68.2% | -34.6% |
| Worked From Home | 9.5% | 20.0% | -10.5% |
| Mean Commute | 26.20 | 30.80 | -4.60 |
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 1.2% to 844,430: residents under 18 are up 0.1% and those 65 and over are up 3.8%.
County median household income is $111K, 8.0% of residents are below the poverty level, 20.0% work from home.