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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 −13.3% YoY. inventory, −3.6% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 13.3% YoY while the median home got down 7.0% bigger, so value per square foot is up 1.6%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 98901 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 50.0% of this ZIP's 11,246 occupied households, on a median household income of $57K.
| Measure | ZIP 98901 | Yakima County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $57K | $71K | -$13K |
| Below Poverty Level | 22.0% | 15.5% | +6.5% |
| Median Age | 32.80 | 33.30 | -0.50 |
| Total Population | 31,366 | 257,152 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.68 | 2.89 | -0.21 |
| Owner-Occupied | 50.0% | 61.8% | -11.9% |
| Worked From Home | 7.6% | 7.3% | +0.3% |
| Mean Commute | 19.30 | 20.30 | -1.00 |
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 0.2% to 257,152: residents under 18 are down 0.9% and those 65 and over are up 1.8%.
County median household income is $71K, 15.5% of residents are below the poverty level, 7.3% work from home.