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 23,365, 9,705 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $203,297, house prices in Loves Park are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Loves Park, accounting for 58.66% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Loves Park include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 18.01%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 11.02%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 8.52%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Loves Park are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 62.71% owning and 37.29% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Loves Park 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 Loves Park built between 1940-1969 ( 27.60%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 20.45%). There's also some housing in Loves Park built before 1939 ( 6.81%).
Real estate appreciation rates in Loves Park's have tracked to near the national average over the last then years, with the annual appreciation rate averaging 6.43% during the period.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Loves Park's appreciation rate, at 5.43%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Loves Park's appreciation rate has been 1.98%, which annualizes to a rate of 8.18%.
Relative to Illinois, our data show that Loves Park's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 80% of the other cities and towns in Illinois.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Loves Park differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Loves Park - 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 Loves Park real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$203,297
for Illinois
for nation
9,705
$1,646 / per month