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Raw data sources: American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Methodology: NeighborhoodScout uses over 600 characteristics to build a neighborhood profile… Read more about Scout's Real Estate Data
With a population of 3,478, 2,002 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $340,762, Jamestown real estate values are some of the lowest in California, although compared to real estate around the nation, Jamestown homes are still considered rather expensive.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Jamestown, accounting for 47.42% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Jamestown include mobile homes or trailers ( 30.06%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 6.99%), and a few large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 6.50%).
People in Jamestown primarily live in small (one, two or no bedroom) single-family detached homes. Jamestown has a mixture of owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing.
There is a lot of housing in Jamestown built from 1970 to 1999 so parts of town may have that "Brady Bunch" look of homes popular in the '70s and early '80s, although some of these houses were built up through the early '90s as well. There is also a lot of housing in Jamestown built between 1940-1969 ( 28.77%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 13.05%). There's also some housing in Jamestown built before 1939 ( 2.58%).
Real estate appreciation rates in Jamestown's have tracked to near the national average over the last then years, with the annual appreciation rate averaging 5.95% during the period.
Over the last year, Jamestown appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Jamestown's appreciation rate has been -0.33%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Jamestown were at 0.00%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 0.00%.
Notably, Jamestown's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to California, our data show that Jamestown's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 80% of the other cities and towns in California.
$340,762
for California
for nation
2,002
$1,359 / per month