U.S. zip codes were designed in 1963 to tell USPS how to sort your mail — but now they might tell others how you live your life. Software company Esri’s Tapestry Segmentation project has combined U.S.

I typically write a story about housing trends at a ZIP-code level every six months. But there’s no reason I can’t crunch, say, July data just for you. So I did. I’m thoughtful that way. The numbers ...