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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 −4.9% YoY. inventory, +26.4% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 4.9% YoY while the median home got down 4.2% bigger, so value per square foot is down 2.2%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 98908 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 31.1% of this ZIP's 14,796 occupied households, on a median household income of $84K.
| Measure | ZIP 98908 | Yakima County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $84K | $71K | +$14K |
| Below Poverty Level | 10.1% | 15.5% | -5.4% |
| Median Age | 39.40 | 33.30 | +6.10 |
| Total Population | 38,060 | 257,152 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.56 | 2.89 | -0.33 |
| Owner-Occupied | 68.9% | 61.8% | +7.0% |
| Worked From Home | 8.0% | 7.3% | +0.7% |
| Mean Commute | 18.90 | 20.30 | -1.40 |
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 0.2% 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.