Pick your goal — cash flow, growth or both — and every US state, county and ZIP gets a score from 0 to 100, built from Zillow research data: rental yield weighed against 5- and 10-year home value change, rent growth, past downturns, property tax, vacancy, population and job growth, and natural-hazard risk. High yields that come from falling prices are flagged as yield traps. Filter, flip to scatter or leaderboard, then jump straight into an analysis.
The map below is a preview with sample data — the live map renders every state, county and ZIP.
Deep green = cash-flow-friendly; pale = appreciation-driven. Rendered exactly the way subscribers see it — with sample data.
Every state plotted by median price and gross yield. Up-left is where cash flow lives — spot the sweet spot in seconds.
Ranked by gross yield — sortable by price and rent in the app, so the top of your buy-box is always one glance away.
Recolor by yield, by price (inverted — low reads green, the affordability map), or by rent. Same states, three stories.
Min yield, max price, min rent — each filter fades the states that don't fit until only your buy-box is lit.
Zoom in and the map re-tiles: 51 states become ~3,100 counties become 26,000+ ZIP areas — down to the neighborhood, like this. All on one shared color scale.
One tap isolates the extremes: highest-yield markets glow hot, lowest go cool, everything in between fades out.
Click any region for its rank, price, rent and yield — then jump straight into an analyzer with the market pre-filled.
Free Zillow Research data (ZHVI home values + ZORI rents). Per-ZIP gross yield and value and rent history, aggregated up to county and state medians. Every score shows the numbers behind it — no black box.
median rent × 12 ÷ median value. Colors are normalized to the national p10–p90 band, so deep green means the same thing at every zoom level.
One filtered dataset, three views. The scatter finds the yield-vs-price sweet spot; the leaderboard ranks and sorts; the map shows where.
Explorer and Investor see a locked teaser. Pro unlocks one state in depth. Elite unlocks every state, county and ZIP in the country.
| What you get | Explorer | Investor | Pro | Elite |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National yield map | Locked teaser | Locked teaser | One state in depth | Every state |
| County & ZIP drill-down | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Scatter · leaderboard · filters | — | — | Your state | ✓ |
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