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 a population of 11,701, 4,310 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $136,784, house prices in Winfield are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Winfield, accounting for 75.32% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Winfield include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 9.25%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 8.39%), and a few mobile homes or trailers ( 5.79%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Winfield are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 54.75% owning and 45.25% 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. Winfield's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 33.01% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Winfield include homes built before 1939 ( 30.63%) and housing constructed between 1970-1999 ( 29.48%). There's also some housing in Winfield built between 2000 and later ( 6.88%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Winfield. Fully 17.65% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Winfield homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Winfield 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.
Some of the lowest real estate appreciation rates in America over the last ten years have been in Winfield, where house values have increased just 46.98%, which is annualized rate of 3.93%. This rate is lower than the appreciation rate found in 90% of the cities and towns in America.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Winfield's appreciation rate, at 5.94%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Winfield's appreciation rate has been 4.94%, which annualizes to a rate of 21.27%.
Importantly, this makes Winfield one of the highest appreciating communities in the nation for the latest quarter, and may signal the city's near-future real estate investment strength.
Relative to Kansas, our data show that Winfield's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 60% of the other cities and towns in Kansas.
$136,784
for Kansas
for nation
4,310
$1,219 / per month