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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 153,384, 56,842 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $201,031, house prices in Kansas City are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Kansas City, accounting for 69.07% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Kansas City include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 15.08%), row houses and other attached homes ( 8.98%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 4.68%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Kansas City are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 58.98% owning and 41.02% renting.
At the end of World War II, American soldiers returned home triumphant and, with the help of the GI Bill, built homes by the millions on the edges of America's cities. These homes were predominantly capes and ranches, modest in size, but built to house a growing middle-class as the 20th century became the American century. Kansas City's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 41.64% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Kansas City include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 25.26%) and housing constructed before 1939 ( 20.32%). There's also some housing in Kansas City built between 2000 and later ( 12.79%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Kansas City. Fully 10.85% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Kansas City homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Kansas City real estate prices below levels they could achieve if vacant housing was absorbed into the market and became occupied. Housing vacancy rates are a useful measure to consider, along with other things, if you are a home buyer or a real estate investor.
In the last 10 years, Kansas City has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Kansas City real estate appreciated 141.28% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 9.21%, putting Kansas City in the top 10% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Kansas City definitely has a track record of being one of the best long term real estate investments in America through the last ten years.
Over the last year, Kansas City appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Kansas City's appreciation rate has been 3.80%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Kansas City were at 2.29%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 9.46%.
Relative to Kansas, our data show that Kansas City's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 80% of the other cities and towns in Kansas.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Kansas City differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Kansas City - or in any city or town - that have the best track record of real estate appreciation, by the latest quarter, the last year, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, or even since 2000, to assist you in making the best Kansas City real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$201,031
for Kansas
for nation
56,842
$1,683 / per month