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 4,294 people, 1,460 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $159,333, house prices in Comanche are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Comanche, accounting for 81.02% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Comanche include mobile homes or trailers ( 5.83%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 5.15%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 4.46%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Comanche are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 64.62% owning and 35.38% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Comanche 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 Comanche built between 1940-1969 ( 36.13%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from before 1939 ( 15.44%). There's also some housing in Comanche built between 2000 and later ( 6.98%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Comanche. Fully 16.52% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Comanche homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Comanche 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.
Appreciation rates for homes in Comanche have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 105.95%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Comanche house appreciation rate of 7.49%.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Comanche's appreciation rate, at 3.13%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Comanche's appreciation rate has been 3.65%, which annualizes to a rate of 15.40%.
Importantly, this makes Comanche 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 Texas, our data show that Comanche's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 50% of the other cities and towns in Texas.
$159,333
for Texas
for nation
1,460
$1,174 / per month