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 3,645, 1,463 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $237,413, house prices in Eastland are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Eastland, accounting for 76.33% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Eastland include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 8.31%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 6.68%), and a few mobile homes or trailers ( 5.79%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Eastland are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 62.75% owning and 37.26% 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. Eastland's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 45.71% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Eastland include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 31.35%) and housing constructed before 1939 ( 13.41%). There's also some housing in Eastland built between 2000 and later ( 9.52%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Eastland. Fully 23.04% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Eastland homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Eastland 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.
In the last 10 years, Eastland has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Eastland real estate appreciated 116.21% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 8.02%, putting Eastland in the top 20% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Eastland definitely has a track record of being one of the best long term real estate investments in America through the last ten years.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Eastland's appreciation rate, at 3.81%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Eastland's appreciation rate has been 3.65%, which annualizes to a rate of 15.40%.
Importantly, this makes Eastland 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 Eastland's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 70% of the other cities and towns in Texas.
$237,413
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for nation
1,463
$1,113 / per month