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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 2,211 people, 711 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $523,569, Comfort real estate is some of the most expensive in Texas, although Comfort home values aren't among America's most expensive.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Comfort, accounting for 53.38% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Comfort include mobile homes or trailers ( 29.87%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 10.13%), and a few large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 5.45%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Comfort. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 73.53% of Comfort's homes, and 59.09% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
There is a lot of housing in Comfort 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 Comfort built between 1940-1969 ( 16.88%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 10.91%). There's also some housing in Comfort built before 1939 ( 10.78%).
In the last 10 years, Comfort has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Comfort real estate appreciated 119.30% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 8.17%, putting Comfort in the top 20% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Comfort definitely has a track record of being one of the best long term real estate investments in America through the last ten years.
Over the last year, Comfort appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Comfort's appreciation rate has been 2.57%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Comfort were at -1.46%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -5.70%.
Notably, Comfort's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Texas, our data show that Comfort's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 70% of the other cities and towns in Texas.
$523,569
for Texas
for nation
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$1,481 / per month