Large Sun Belt metros — Houston, Phoenix, Miami, and similar — that saw substantial pandemic-era price surges (above 50%) and are now experiencing the country's sharpest 1-year price declines as that demand normalizes. Population continues to grow, but housing has clearly entered a correction phase.
Pandemic surge above 50%, 1yr ZHVI change below -2%, peak-to-current drawdown below -5%, population still growing.
Average values across the 76 counties in this profile.
Sorted by BoomTown Index score. Click any county for its full profile.
Market profiles describe each county's housing-market character, derived empirically from 24 housing, labor, and demographic features across 987 U.S. counties using hierarchical clustering. Counties whose BoomTown Score diverges sharply from a profile's typical range are moved to Idiosyncratic Markets and get a custom narrative instead. Read the methodology →