The Data Drop · October 2026
This month’s housing numbers, ready to quote.
The shareable numbers from HavenScore’s latest monthly refresh — the biggest city-level price movers, buyer-seller balance shifts, and national medians. Every stat copies with its source and scope attached. Quote freely with attribution to HavenScore (havenscore.app).
Data as of October 2026 · refreshed monthly
Biggest city-level price movers
Year-over-year change in Zillow home values, averaged across each city’s scored ZIPs. Cities need at least 3 scored ZIPs and 50,000+ residents to appear — smaller markets are too noisy for a headline number.
Rising fastest
- Greenwich, CT +13.92% YoY · median $2,531,113 · 5 ZIPs
- San Francisco, CA +13.04% YoY · median $1,394,964 · 26 ZIPs
- Newport Beach, CA +12.04% YoY · median $4,464,568 · 6 ZIPs
- Rockford, IL +10.49% YoY · median $173,591 · 8 ZIPs
- Oak Park, IL +9.33% YoY · median $471,887 · 3 ZIPs
Falling fastest
- Camden, NJ -8.19% YoY · median $134,945 · 4 ZIPs
- Sherman, TX -7.24% YoY · median $285,919 · 3 ZIPs
- Detroit, MI -6.96% YoY · median $86,804 · 26 ZIPs
- Lehigh Acres, FL -6.41% YoY · median $283,936 · 6 ZIPs
- Johnstown, PA -5.42% YoY · median $73,105 · 6 ZIPs
Buyer-seller balance shifts
HavenScore’s buyer-seller balance runs from -100 (buyer-favorable) to +100 (seller-favorable). Shifts compare the two most recent monthly snapshots, averaged across each city’s scored ZIPs; the same city floors apply.
- National 2 → 2 · August 2026 to September 2026
Toward buyers
- Wilson, NC 20 pts toward buyers · now -46 · 3 ZIPs
- Fairfield, CT 14 pts toward buyers · now 33 · 3 ZIPs
- Desert Hot Springs, CA 13 pts toward buyers · now -37 · 3 ZIPs
- Redwood City, CA 13 pts toward buyers · now -1 · 3 ZIPs
- Meridian, MS 12 pts toward buyers · now -12 · 3 ZIPs
Toward sellers
- Nashua, NH 15 pts toward sellers · now 23 · 4 ZIPs
- Wilkes-Barre, PA 15 pts toward sellers · now 2 · 4 ZIPs
- Mount Vernon, NY 14 pts toward sellers · now 29 · 3 ZIPs
- Anchorage, AK 14 pts toward sellers · now 37 · 12 ZIPs
- West Covina, CA 12 pts toward sellers · now -21 · 3 ZIPs
National medians
ZIP-weighted medians across 26,000+scored ZIPs — the middle ZIP, not the middle household. Rent is Zillow’s alone, across the scored ZIPs that carry a Zillow rent. Sources: Zillow (values, rents), Realtor.com (days on market), via the HavenScore pipeline.
Median home value
$288,568
Median rent
$1,823
Median price growth (YoY)
+2.83%
Median days on market
60 days
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