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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 170,067, 79,070 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $210,360, house prices in Springfield are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Springfield, accounting for 61.43% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Springfield include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 27.53%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 5.72%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 3.12%).
People in Springfield primarily live in small (one, two or no bedroom) single-family detached homes. Springfield has a mixture of owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing.
There is a lot of housing in Springfield 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 Springfield built between 1940-1969 ( 26.15%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 16.36%). There's also some housing in Springfield built before 1939 ( 12.12%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Springfield have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 106.00%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Springfield house appreciation rate of 7.49%.
Appreciation rates are so strong in Springfield that despite a nationwide downturn in the housing market, Springfield real estate has continued to appreciate in value faster than most communities. Looking at just the latest twelve months, Springfield appreciation rates continue to be some of the highest in America, at 8.23%, which is higher than appreciation rates in 72.49% of the cities and towns in the nation. Based on the last twelve months, short-term real estate investors have found good fortune in Springfield. Springfield 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 Springfield's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 90% of the other cities and towns in Missouri.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Springfield differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Springfield - 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 Springfield real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$210,360
for Missouri
for nation
79,070
$1,279 / per month