The story of this market
The typical home in ZIP 65240 sells for about $238,000, or $101 per square foot.
Prices are down 2.2% from a year ago, which gives buyers more room to negotiate. Homes take about 18 days to sell, which is fast. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $694 a month.
ZIP 65240 — Centralia
The housing market in ZIP 65240 reflects broader regional trends in the Columbia area, characterized by a slight cooling in price growth and moderate inventory levels. Specific ZIP-level metrics for days on market and sales volume are aligned with the wider market, though some granular data points remain unavailable at the ZCTA level. Market activity is currently stable with a balanced supply-to-demand ratio.
Median prices moved down 2.2% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 18 days on market with 1.8 months of supply — a fast-moving market.
33% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 98.7% of asking — demand is holding steady.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 4.8% · poverty 8.7% — a stable, low-distress profile.
ZCTA 65240
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 retrieved from Census ACS and IncomeByZipCode.com.
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Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.