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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 37,081, 13,285 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $226,569, house prices in Leavenworth are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Leavenworth, accounting for 65.55% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Leavenworth include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 13.74%), row houses and other attached homes ( 11.67%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 7.69%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Leavenworth are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 44.57% owning and 55.43% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Leavenworth 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 Leavenworth built before 1939 ( 27.00%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 24.91%). There's also some housing in Leavenworth built between 2000 and later ( 16.04%).
Real estate appreciation rates in Leavenworth's have tracked to near the national average over the last then years, with the annual appreciation rate averaging 6.09% during the period.
Over the last year, Leavenworth appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Leavenworth's appreciation rate has been 3.88%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Leavenworth were at 2.29%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 9.46%.
Relative to Kansas, our data show that Leavenworth'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 Leavenworth differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Leavenworth - 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 Leavenworth real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$226,569
for Kansas
for nation
13,285
$1,583 / per month