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 16,975 people, 6,452 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $281,483, Taylor 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 Taylor, accounting for 80.27% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Taylor include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 12.50%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 4.34%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 1.76%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Taylor. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 69.75% of Taylor's homes, and 54.85% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
There is a lot of housing in Taylor 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 Taylor built between 2000 and later ( 21.40%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 21.20%). There's also some housing in Taylor built before 1939 ( 14.48%).
In the last 10 years, Taylor has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Taylor real estate appreciated 125.94% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 8.49%, putting Taylor in the top 20% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Taylor 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, Taylor appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Taylor's appreciation rate has been -1.92%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Taylor were at 1.70%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 6.98%.
Relative to Texas, our data show that Taylor's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 90% of the other cities and towns in Texas.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Taylor differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Taylor - 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 Taylor real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$281,483
for Texas
for nation
6,452
$1,455 / per month