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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 631 people, 263 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $146,332, house prices in Sandy Hook are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Sandy Hook, accounting for 44.89% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Sandy Hook include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 26.08%), mobile homes or trailers ( 22.31%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 3.49%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Sandy Hook are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 41.12% owning and 58.88% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Sandy Hook 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 Sandy Hook built between 1940-1969 ( 17.20%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 10.75%). There's also some housing in Sandy Hook built before 1939 ( 1.34%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Sandy Hook. Fully 29.30% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Sandy Hook homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Sandy Hook 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.
Appreciation rates for homes in Sandy Hook have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 91.32%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Sandy Hook house appreciation rate of 6.70%.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Sandy Hook's appreciation rate, at 7.44%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Sandy Hook's appreciation rate has been 1.84%, which annualizes to a rate of 7.57%.
Relative to Kentucky, our data show that Sandy Hook's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 60% of the other cities and towns in Kentucky.
$146,332
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263
$902 / per month