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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 −1.6% YoY. inventory, +12.7% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 1.6% YoY while the median home got up 3.2% bigger, so value per square foot is down 5.5%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 98503 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 41.6% of this ZIP's 17,664 occupied households, on a median household income of $89K.
| Measure | ZIP 98503 | Thurston County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $89K | $97K | -$8K |
| Below Poverty Level | 10.9% | 9.5% | +1.4% |
| Median Age | 41.10 | 40.00 | +1.10 |
| Total Population | 41,656 | 299,067 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.29 | 2.48 | -0.19 |
| Owner-Occupied | 58.4% | 67.7% | -9.3% |
| Worked From Home | 17.2% | 20.5% | -3.3% |
| Mean Commute | 24.70 | 25.80 | -1.10 |
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 0.8% to 299,067: residents under 18 are down 0.3% and those 65 and over are up 3.2%.
County median household income is $97K, 9.5% of residents are below the poverty level, 20.5% work from home.