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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 11,373 people, 4,863 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $192,453, house prices in Crowley are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Crowley, accounting for 82.42% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Crowley include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 7.93%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 5.72%), and a few mobile homes or trailers ( 3.26%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Crowley are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 47.50% owning and 52.50% 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. Crowley's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 42.79% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Crowley include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 35.16%) and housing constructed before 1939 ( 13.03%). There's also some housing in Crowley built between 2000 and later ( 9.02%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Crowley. Fully 16.93% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Crowley homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Crowley 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.
Some of the lowest real estate appreciation rates in America over the last ten years have been in Crowley, where house values have increased just 36.13%, which is annualized rate of 3.13%. This rate is lower than the appreciation rate found in 90% of the cities and towns in America.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Crowley's appreciation rate, at 5.58%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Crowley's appreciation rate has been 5.09%, which annualizes to a rate of 21.99%.
Importantly, this makes Crowley 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 Louisiana, our data show that Crowley's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 80% of the other cities and towns in Louisiana.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Crowley differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Crowley - 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 Crowley real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$192,453
for Louisiana
for nation
4,863
$782 / per month