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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 5,974, 2,543 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $581,623, real estate costs in Yaphank are among some of the highest in the nation, although house prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive New York communities.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Yaphank, accounting for 50.93% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Yaphank include row houses and other attached homes ( 26.85%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 18.06%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 4.17%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Yaphank. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 73.64% of Yaphank's homes, and 50.06% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
There is a lot of housing in Yaphank 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 Yaphank built between 2000 and later ( 29.00%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 20.14%). There's also some housing in Yaphank built before 1939 ( 7.99%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Yaphank have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 104.56%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Yaphank house appreciation rate of 7.42%.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Yaphank's appreciation rate, at 6.96%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Yaphank's appreciation rate has been 2.82%, which annualizes to a rate of 11.77%.
Relative to New York, our data show that Yaphank's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 50% of the other cities and towns in New York.
$581,623
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2,543
$5,287 / per month