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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 98,484 people, 38,893 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $234,847, house prices in Kenosha are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Kenosha, accounting for 57.46% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Kenosha include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 21.86%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 15.94%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 3.59%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Kenosha are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 56.79% owning and 43.21% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Kenosha 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 Kenosha built between 1940-1969 ( 30.65%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from before 1939 ( 22.07%). There's also some housing in Kenosha built between 2000 and later ( 14.60%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Kenosha have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 86.99%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Kenosha house appreciation rate of 6.46%.
Over the last year, Kenosha appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Kenosha's appreciation rate has been 4.77%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Kenosha were at 0.21%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 0.86%.
Relative to Wisconsin, our data show that Kenosha's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 90% of the other cities and towns in Wisconsin.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Kenosha differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Kenosha - 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 Kenosha real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$234,847
for Wisconsin
for nation
38,893
$1,820 / per month