The story of this market
The typical home in ZIP 49246 sells for about $285,000, or $165 per square foot.
Prices are up +3.5% from a year ago, so sellers still have some momentum. Homes take about 42 days to sell. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $1,083 a month.
ZIP 49246 — Horton
The housing market in Horton (49246) remains stable with modest year-over-year price appreciation. Inventory levels are constrained, keeping the market balanced between buyers and sellers despite lower sales volume. Demand is driven by local employment in the Jackson metropolitan area.
Median prices moved up 3.5% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 42 days on market with 3.8 months of supply — a fast-moving market.
12% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 98.2% of asking — demand is running ahead of supply.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 1.9% · poverty 6.9% — a stable, low-distress profile.
Researched annual trajectory for this ZIP, from published historical series
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 7.8%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
Median annual property tax paid on this ZIP's residential parcels
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 7.0%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
versus the prior ACS vintage
in-migration and out-migration balanced
ZCTA 49246, Jackson County MI
ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Aggregate published statistics for this ZIP — never individual records, and never an attribute of any individual property or resident.
data.census.gov ZCTA 49246 profile
Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.