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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 600 people, 226 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $247,548, house prices in Helen are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Helen, accounting for 52.97% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Helen include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 18.34%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 15.62%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 8.83%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Helen. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 68.14% of Helen's homes, and 51.10% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
There is a lot of housing in Helen 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 Helen built between 2000 and later ( 43.29%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 2.72%). There's also some housing in Helen built before 1939 ( 1.87%).
A decent proportion of the Helen housing stock is seasonally occupied. That is, homes and condos in Helen are occupied by people for a portion of the year - mainly for vacation purposes - and then locked up and left unoccupied for the remainder of the year as owners return to their primary residences. This characteristic of the Helen housing market speaks to its popularity as a vacation location of choice.
Helen's appreciation rate notably has been below the national average for the last ten years. The average annual home appreciation rate in Helen during the period has been just 5.22%, which is lower than 80% of US communities.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Helen's appreciation rate, at 6.93%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Helen's appreciation rate has been 1.28%, which annualizes to a rate of 5.24%.
Relative to Georgia, our data show that Helen's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 80% of the other cities and towns in Georgia.
$247,548
for Georgia
for nation
226
$1,255 / per month