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.