How unevenly priced the counties retirees choose really are, among the counties retirees choose

the U.S. 55+ market · Data as of 2026-09-17 · ALEX Intelligence

Methodology

Source:

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2024

Measure

Median Home Value, ranked highest first across the 10% of U.S. counties with the highest 65+ share (97 ranked in total).

How the headline figure is computed

The highest-ranked unit's value divided by the median value across all 97 ranked units.

Universe

Places below a 5,000-resident floor are excluded so a median computed on a handful of households cannot top the ranking.

Vintage

2024

Reproduce this query

https://api.census.gov/data/2024/acs/acs5?get=NAME%2CB01003_001E%2CB01002_001E%2CB19013_001E%2CB25077_001E%2CB25064_001E%2CB25003_001E%2CB25003_002E%2CB25002_001E%2CB25002_003E%2CB25035_001E%2CB25010_001E%2CB25070_001E%2CB25070_007E%2CB25070_008E%2CB25070_009E%2CB25070_010E%2CB25075_001E%2CB25075_024E%2CB25075_025E%2CB25075_026E%2CB25081_001E%2CB25081_009E%2CB01001_020E%2CB01001_021E%2CB01001_022E%2CB01001_023E%2CB01001_024E%2CB01001_025E%2CB01001_044E%2CB01001_045E%2CB01001_046E%2CB01001_047E%2CB01001_048E%2CB01001_049E&for=county%3A%2A&key=YOUR_CENSUS_KEY

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