In 80210, June 2026 Zillow ZORI is $2,124, up 0.8% from a year earlier. This is the ZIP-level typical observed asking-rent index, blended across rental types, rather than a quoted rent for a specified home. The matched ACS five-year median gross rent is $1,996, a survey measure for occupied renter homes that includes selected utilities; it is therefore below the current asking-rent index without functioning as a direct listing comparison. Applying the 30% screen to ZORI produces $84,960 of annual income and an asking-rent-to-local-median-income ratio of 20.0%. That screen is arithmetic only—not advice and not an applicant qualification rule.
The longer Zillow history supports a stable-growth reading but not an acceleration story. Exact same-month annualized change was 0.8% over one year, 0.7% over three years, and 3.1% over five years. Recent direction therefore confirms the positive longer path rather than breaking from it, while its slower pace is materially different from the earlier five-year pace. Monthly rent changes showed 2.1% annualized variability, and the worst peak-to-trough decline was 2.3%; neither figure signals a perfectly smooth series, but both support more confidence in one current index snapshot than a highly erratic history would. Coverage is complete across 126 observations. Transparent national discovery ranks place momentum at 2,126, stability at 206, and the balanced measure at 1,266, with lower ranks stronger; these are backward-looking discovery measures, not forecasts or investment recommendations.
Resale evidence creates the clearest counterpoint to the modest asking-rent change. Redfin's direct rolling-three-month ZIP for-sale observation reports a median sold price of $1,049,763, up 9.7% year over year, alongside 224 homes sold and a median marketing time of 13 days. Inventory was 184 homes and months of supply stood at 2.5. The average sale-to-list result was 98.8%, while 24.3% of sales closed above list price. These are for-sale market and resale-liquidity observations, not rental transactions or rental comparables. The faster resale price change does not confirm faster asking-rent growth; instead, it challenges any reading of the stable rent history as moving in lockstep with the ZIP's recent sales market.
The bedroom view is a scaling model, not a rent survey. Scaling ZIP ZORI with the local HUD FMR/SAFMR ladder produces modelled monthly estimates of $1,671 for a studio, $1,783 for a one-bedroom, $2,124 for a two-bedroom, $2,780 for a three-bedroom, and $3,100 for a four-bedroom. The underlying local HUD standards are $1,643, $1,754, $2,089, $2,734, and $3,049 across those bedroom sizes. HUD FMR/SAFMR is an administrative, bedroom-specific standard rather than asking rent. Accordingly, these are modelled estimates built by scaling ZIP ZORI through the local HUD ladder, never measured bedroom rents or evidence of an available unit at any stated amount.
The Census evidence describes the matched ZCTA, which is a statistical area and is not identical to a USPS delivery ZIP. Its median household income is $127,270. Of 18,856 housing units, 17,713 were occupied and 1,143 were vacant, producing a 6.1% ACS housing-vacancy rate. Renter households numbered 7,775, or 43.9% of occupied homes. Among renters represented in the burden measure, 3,566 households, or 45.9%, paid at least the burden threshold. The housing stock included 12,397 single-family units and 3,910 units in large multifamily structures. These aggregate measures frame resident and stock composition, but neither the vacancy count nor the burden share proves availability, rent, or payment pressure for a particular home.
For wider context only, the Denver city scope rent value is $1,877, the Denver County scope rent value is $1,889, and the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro scope rent value is $1,930; each is lower than the ZIP asking-rent index. The ZCTA renter share and ACS housing-vacancy rate are also lower than the city and county context, while local median household income is higher than the city and metro context. The ZIP's burden share is below the city and county context measures. These comparisons are descriptive benchmarks for broader geographies, not replacements for ZIP, ZCTA, HUD, or direct resale evidence and not a basis for inferring conditions at a specific property.
Annualized ZIP ZORI divided by the Redfin median sold price produces a 2.4% cross-source screening ratio. It is only a comparison between an asking-rent index and a resale median, not a cap rate, net return, expected return, or property yield. It excludes property-specific rent, operating costs, financing, taxes, insurance, condition, and transaction details. The ratio should also be read beside the central tension in this packet: the income screen and stable historical rent path may make the current index appear comparatively contained, yet the direct resale observation shows a much sharper price change than the asking-rent history. Neither evidence universe resolves the other.
Important limits remain. Zillow does not identify the actual rent, lease terms, unit condition, or utility treatment for an individual home; ACS is a survey with published margins of error; HUD standards are administrative; and Redfin describes completed for-sale activity rather than rental deals. Concrete property-level checks should verify the advertised rent, bedroom count, utility responsibility, lease duration, concessions, availability date, condition, and any relevant sale or listing facts. Those checks can test whether a particular home resembles the broad measures, but the supplied data cannot establish that result by itself. All history is backward-looking, and no portion of this report is a forecast, recommendation, or conclusion about a specific unit.
","findings":[{"body":"The ZIP Zillow asking-rent index is above the matched ACS median gross-rent measure. That difference is informative only when source construction is preserved: Zillow tracks a current blended asking-rent index, while ACS summarizes occupied renter households and includes selected utilities. The income screen standardizes the index arithmetically; it does not determine whether any household can qualify or afford a particular lease.","title":"Current asking rent sits above the occupied-renter survey measure"},{"body":"Recent same-month rent changes remain positive, so the latest direction does not reverse the longer Zillow history. However, the shorter-period pace trails the five-year pace. Low annualized variability and a shallow recorded drawdown support a relatively stable historical interpretation, while the modest current gain argues against treating prior stronger growth as the present rate.","title":"History is positive but slower than its earlier path"},{"body":"Redfin's ZIP resale evidence shows a substantial annual increase in median sold price, short marketing time, limited months of supply, and sale-to-list signals that belong exclusively to the for-sale market. This creates a useful tension: sales-market movement has been much stronger than recent asking-rent movement, so resale momentum should not be used as proof of equivalent rental acceleration.","title":"Resale activity is stronger than the rent-growth signal"},{"body":"The matched ZCTA has a lower renter share and lower housing-vacancy rate than the broader city and county context, while household income is higher than city and metro context. At the same time, a substantial share of renter households meets the ACS burden threshold. Those aggregate indicators describe households and housing stock, not the availability, payment burden, or likely rent of an individual property.","title":"ZCTA aggregates show a mixed affordability and stock picture"}],"risks":["The ZIP and ZCTA labels align for this report, but their boundaries and the USPS delivery system are not identical. That geographic alignment should not be treated as a property-specific market boundary.","The rent-history series is complete but backward-looking. Its stable pattern improves context for the current index, yet it cannot establish future rent movement, future listing conditions, or future buyer behavior.","Redfin resale measures concern completed for-sale transactions and listing-market liquidity. They do not provide rental comparables, operating economics, lease terms, or evidence that a sale-market trend will be mirrored by asking rents.","ACS vacancy and burden measures are aggregate survey estimates with margins of error. They cannot prove that a particular unit is vacant, that utilities are included, or that an individual renter faces the reported burden."],"qa":[{"a":"Zillow ZORI is a current ZIP asking-rent index blended across rental types. ACS median gross rent is a five-year survey measure for occupied renter homes and includes selected utilities. Their timing, household universe, unit mix, and utility treatment differ, so the figures answer different questions and should not be substituted for one another.","q":"Why do the Zillow asking-rent index and ACS gross-rent median differ?"},{"a":"No. The bedroom amounts are modelled estimates created by scaling the ZIP Zillow asking-rent index through the local HUD bedroom ladder. HUD FMR/SAFMR is an administrative standard rather than asking rent. The estimates are useful for consistent size-based screening, but they are not measured rents, listings, lease offers, or availability evidence.","q":"Are the bedroom rent amounts observed rents for available homes?"},{"a":"The rent series shows a relatively stable positive historical path with slower recent growth than its longer-run pace. Redfin resale data show a considerably stronger recent price change in the direct for-sale market. The contrast means sales-market strength does not validate a conclusion that asking rents are accelerating at the same pace.","q":"How should the rent history and resale evidence be read together?"},{"a":"A specific-home review would need the actual advertised rent, bedroom configuration, utility responsibility, lease duration, concessions, availability date, condition, and relevant listing or sale facts. Those details determine whether the home resembles the broad ZIP, ZCTA, HUD, or resale measures. Aggregate vacancy, burden, and historical figures cannot establish those property-level facts.","q":"What property-level information remains necessary before comparing a specific home with this report?"}],"sources":[{"key":"apartment_list_time_on_market","name":"Apartment List Time on Market — listing liquidity","release":"Apartment List 2026-07","pulledAt":"2026-08-08","url":"https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/category/data-rent-estimates"},{"key":"apartment_list_vacancy","name":"Apartment List Vacancy Index — rental vacancy","release":"Apartment List 2026-07","pulledAt":"2026-08-08","url":"https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/apartment-list-vacancy-index-methodology"},{"key":"census_zcta_facts","name":"Census ACS five-year — ZCTA housing and income","release":"ACS 2024 5-year ZCTA","pulledAt":"2026-08-08","url":"https://api.census.gov/data/2024/acs/acs5.html"},{"key":"hud_zip","name":"HUD USPS crosswalk and Small Area FMRs — ZIP rent fallback","release":"ZIP-CBSA 2025Q4 + SAFMR 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