About HomeStats

What this site is

HomeStats pulls public housing data for every U.S. state, metro, county, city, and ZIP code into one place: median sale prices, days on market, inventory trends, migration flows, affordability, and a transparent market score you can check the math on. The goal is simple. The data behind most paywalled housing reports is already public, so it should be readable by anyone without a subscription.

Where the data comes from

Everything on this site is built from public datasets: Redfin's data center, FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), the FHFA House Price Index, the U.S. Census Bureau, IRS Statistics of Income migration files, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The full list, including what we pull from each source and how often, is on the data sources page. How the scores are calculated is documented on the methodology pages.

How often it updates

Market data refreshes weekly, on the schedule of the underlying sources. Slower-moving datasets like FHFA HPI, IRS migration, and Census estimates update when their publishers release new vintages, which is quarterly or annually depending on the series.

Who runs it

HomeStats is built and maintained by J.A. Watte, an author and tool-maker who publishes free, no-signup web tools and writes books on housing and personal finance, including The Condo Trap and The Resale Trap. This site is part of that same approach: take the research most people never see and make it free to use.

Get in touch

Spotted a number that looks wrong, an accessibility barrier, or a broken page? Use the contact form. Data corrections are taken seriously and fixed fast.