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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 115,749 people, 52,070 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $161,127, house prices in Evansville are some of the most affordable in Indiana as well as the nation.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Evansville, accounting for 64.36% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Evansville include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 22.63%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 9.45%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 2.53%).
People in Evansville primarily live in small (one, two or no bedroom) single-family detached homes. Evansville has a mixture of owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing.
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. Evansville's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 37.35% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Evansville include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 30.95%) and housing constructed before 1939 ( 22.64%). There's also some housing in Evansville built between 2000 and later ( 9.06%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Evansville. Fully 10.98% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Evansville homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Evansville 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.
Evansville's appreciation rate notably has been below the national average for the last ten years. The average annual home appreciation rate in Evansville during the period has been just 5.56%, which is lower than 70% of US communities.
Over the last year, Evansville appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Evansville's appreciation rate has been 0.89%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Evansville were at 0.52%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 2.12%.
Notably, Evansville's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Indiana, our data show that Evansville's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 90% of the other cities and towns in Indiana.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Evansville differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Evansville - 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 Evansville real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$161,127
for Indiana
for nation
52,070
$1,422 / per month