ZIP 23846

What ZIP 23846 actually tells you, and what it doesn't

The 23846 ZIP Code Tabulation Area has a population of 522 and a median household income of $84,205. Against the other tabulation areas in this dataset, it places as follows.

The median home is priced at about 3.0 times median household income, above the midpoint for reporting areas. A gap of this size usually means demand is being set by buyers whose income is not counted in this ZCTA -- commuters, second-home buyers, or investors.

Renting takes an unusually small bite of local income -- about 10% of median household income at the median rent, in the lowest quarter of the 25,890 areas reporting both.

At a median age of 68.9, 23846 falls in the oldest quarter of reporting areas. Retirement destinations and long-settled rural areas cluster here, and in both the labour-force measures below cover a smaller share of residents than they would in a younger area.

ZCTAs approximate USPS ZIP codes rather than matching them, and these are 5-year ACS estimates, so they trail current conditions.