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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 11,110 people, 3,926 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $295,274, Bolivar real estate and house prices are near the national average for all cities and towns.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Bolivar, accounting for 67.26% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Bolivar include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 20.12%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 8.05%), and a few mobile homes or trailers ( 2.89%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Bolivar are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 49.23% owning and 50.77% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Bolivar 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 Bolivar built between 2000 and later ( 20.77%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 20.01%). There's also some housing in Bolivar built before 1939 ( 3.69%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Bolivar have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 99.90%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Bolivar house appreciation rate of 7.17%.
Appreciation rates are so strong in Bolivar that despite a nationwide downturn in the housing market, Bolivar real estate has continued to appreciate in value faster than most communities. Looking at just the latest twelve months, Bolivar appreciation rates continue to be some of the highest in America, at 8.06%, which is higher than appreciation rates in 70.88% of the cities and towns in the nation. Based on the last twelve months, short-term real estate investors have found good fortune in Bolivar. Bolivar appreciation rates in the latest quarter were at 1.16%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 4.73%.
Relative to Missouri, our data show that Bolivar's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 80% of the other cities and towns in Missouri.
$295,274
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for nation
3,926
$1,120 / per month