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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 −6.5% YoY. inventory, −5.5% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 6.5% YoY while the median home got down 1.3% bigger, so value per square foot is down 0.8%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 98226 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 37.6% of this ZIP's 20,048 occupied households, on a median household income of $79K.
| Measure | ZIP 98226 | Whatcom County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $79K | $82K | -$2K |
| Below Poverty Level | 12.0% | 12.9% | -0.9% |
| Median Age | 41.10 | 38.40 | +2.70 |
| Total Population | 46,782 | 230,503 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.31 | 2.40 | -0.09 |
| Owner-Occupied | 62.4% | 63.7% | -1.3% |
| Worked From Home | 13.2% | 14.8% | -1.6% |
| Mean Commute | 19.20 | 21.60 | -2.40 |
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 0.9% to 230,503: residents under 18 are down 0.9% and those 65 and over are up 3.1%.
County median household income is $82K, 12.9% of residents are below the poverty level, 14.8% work from home.