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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 15,491, 5,612 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $218,345, house prices in Carthage are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Carthage, accounting for 71.02% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Carthage include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 13.59%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 10.82%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 2.60%).
People in Carthage primarily live in small (one, two or no bedroom) single-family detached homes. Carthage has a mixture of owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing.
There is a lot of housing in Carthage 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 Carthage built between 1940-1969 ( 32.38%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from before 1939 ( 15.97%). There's also some housing in Carthage built between 2000 and later ( 14.73%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Carthage have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 101.88%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Carthage house appreciation rate of 7.28%.
Appreciation rates are so strong in Carthage that despite a nationwide downturn in the housing market, Carthage real estate has continued to appreciate in value faster than most communities. Looking at just the latest twelve months, Carthage appreciation rates continue to be some of the highest in America, at 15.31%, which is higher than appreciation rates in 97.64% of the cities and towns in the nation. Based on the last twelve months, short-term real estate investors have found good fortune in Carthage. Carthage appreciation rates in the latest quarter were at 0.18%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 0.72%.
Notably, Carthage's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Missouri, our data show that Carthage's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 90% of the other cities and towns in Missouri.
$218,345
for Missouri
for nation
5,612
$1,315 / per month