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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 +2.8% YoY. inventory, +16.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 2.8% YoY while the median home got up 1.8% bigger, so value per square foot is down 2.5%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 98902 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 49.1% of this ZIP's 17,189 occupied households, on a median household income of $63K.
| Measure | ZIP 98902 | Yakima County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $63K | $71K | -$8K |
| Below Poverty Level | 16.7% | 15.5% | +1.2% |
| Median Age | 34.00 | 33.30 | +0.70 |
| Total Population | 46,492 | 257,152 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.65 | 2.89 | -0.24 |
| Owner-Occupied | 50.9% | 61.8% | -10.9% |
| Worked From Home | 7.3% | 7.3% | 0.0% |
| Mean Commute | 17.50 | 20.30 | -2.80 |
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 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.