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 14,399 people, 5,941 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $184,584, house prices in Washington Court House are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Washington Court House, accounting for 71.07% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Washington Court House include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 12.08%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 10.78%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 4.82%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Washington Court House are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 54.20% owning and 45.80% 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. Washington Court House's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 35.61% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Washington Court House include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 29.36%) and housing constructed before 1939 ( 20.14%). There's also some housing in Washington Court House built between 2000 and later ( 14.89%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Washington Court House have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 99.67%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Washington Court House house appreciation rate of 7.16%.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Washington Court House's appreciation rate, at 7.31%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Washington Court House's appreciation rate has been 1.02%, which annualizes to a rate of 4.15%.
Relative to Ohio, our data show that Washington Court House's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 50% of the other cities and towns in Ohio.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Washington Court House differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Washington Court House - 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 Washington Court House real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$184,584
for Ohio
for nation
5,941
$1,155 / per month