Analytics built by: Location, Inc.
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 1,949 people, 892 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $140,843, house prices in Haynesville are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Haynesville, accounting for 77.45% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Haynesville include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 7.93%), mobile homes or trailers ( 7.13%), and a few large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 5.79%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Haynesville. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 69.98% of Haynesville's homes, and 72.55% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
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. Haynesville's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 54.10% of the town's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Haynesville include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 40.73%) and housing constructed before 1939 ( 4.37%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Haynesville. Fully 20.50% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Haynesville homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Haynesville 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.
Some of the lowest real estate appreciation rates in America over the last ten years have been in Haynesville, where house values have increased just 47.69%, which is annualized rate of 3.98%. This rate is lower than the appreciation rate found in 90% of the cities and towns in America.
Over the last year, Haynesville appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Haynesville's appreciation rate has been 2.15%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Haynesville were at -3.70%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -14.01%.
Notably, Haynesville's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Louisiana, our data show that Haynesville's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 50% of the other cities and towns in Louisiana.
$140,843
for Louisiana
for nation
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$717 / per month