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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 4,254 people, 1,618 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $176,020, house prices in Bristow are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Bristow, accounting for 70.71% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Bristow include mobile homes or trailers ( 9.25%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 8.26%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 8.21%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Bristow are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 46.54% owning and 53.46% renting.
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. Bristow's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 38.84% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Bristow include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 37.60%) and housing constructed between 2000 and later ( 13.95%). There's also some housing in Bristow built before 1939 ( 9.61%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Bristow. Fully 16.43% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Bristow homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Bristow 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 Bristow have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 97.34%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Bristow house appreciation rate of 7.03%.
Over the last year, Bristow appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Bristow's appreciation rate has been 4.65%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Bristow were at 0.66%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 2.67%.
Relative to Oklahoma, our data show that Bristow's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 70% of the other cities and towns in Oklahoma.
$176,020
for Oklahoma
for nation
1,618
$865 / per month