I feel that these populations care a lot about their credit and don't want to start their lives post-college on the wrong foot.

Listsource.com always seems to get recommended, but even without any other filters it has a whopping total of 84 "distressed" entries in a county with a population of a million people!  

That's a 27.4 percent increase over the city's population of 656,562 recorded during the 2000 decennial census.When ranked against 30 other cities with populations of 500,000 or more at the turn of the 21st century, only two other large cities – Fort Worth and Charlotte, North Carolina – grew their populations faster than Austin.

I am selling my single family home investment and pursuing my first small to medium sized apartment complex of a value of $0.75-$1.5 million in a houston submarket with strong job growth, population growth, good school districts, and low crime.

I know some common metrics include employment data, population, avg income, breakdown of neighborhoods etc but I was wondering to get a slightly more comprehensive list. 

Now I see that probably at least 20% of the population in my area are real estate investors! 

Median annual household income, population levels and increasing, unemployment rates, traffic counts for the main road etc. are things among many looked at.Renting it out for the house versus break even with taxes is a waiting game until it is developed.

. - New product supply - population growth - job growth - cost of construction - cost of landBasically job/population growth coupled with barriers to entry will help drive rents. 

It has more people than 43 states, and on its own would be the 88th most populous country in the world, ahead of Sweden or Austria, for example.""

These look more to valuations based on average square footage, land size, age and compared to larger population sizes of housing inventory.