Years To Buy, 2022
Submitted by whitemice on Mon, 09/26/2022 - 06:55
Some maps flew around social media of housing costs by county. Those maps used the Median MLS Listing Price divided by the county's median income to calculate the years-to-buy metric. The years-to-buy metric is a common way to correlate housing prices to regional income. Unfortunately the low granularity of county level data hides a great deal of variability. Inspired by those maps a local advocate recalculated the data by zip code and posted them to the Strongtown's slack.
Note: This map uses the Zillow Home Value Index instead of the Median MLS Listing Price used by the county level maps
![](http://www.wmmi.net/documents/urbangr/UrbanGR.HousingPricesVsIncomeZip.20220926.png)
The correlation of housing prices to employment density and amenities is clear.