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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 4,518 people, 1,596 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $135,611, house prices in Fredericktown are some of the most affordable in Missouri as well as the nation.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Fredericktown, accounting for 75.73% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Fredericktown include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 9.34%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 5.64%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 5.27%).
People in Fredericktown primarily live in small (one, two or no bedroom) single-family detached homes. Fredericktown 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. Fredericktown's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 42.38% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Fredericktown include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 35.70%) and housing constructed between 2000 and later ( 12.00%). There's also some housing in Fredericktown built before 1939 ( 9.92%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Fredericktown. Fully 16.70% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Fredericktown homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Fredericktown 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.
Appreciation rates for homes in Fredericktown have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 100.06%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Fredericktown house appreciation rate of 7.18%.
Appreciation rates are so strong in Fredericktown that despite a nationwide downturn in the housing market, Fredericktown real estate has continued to appreciate in value faster than most communities. Looking at just the latest twelve months, Fredericktown appreciation rates continue to be some of the highest in America, at 6.08%, which is higher than appreciation rates in 81.80% of the cities and towns in the nation. Based on the last twelve months, short-term real estate investors have found good fortune in Fredericktown. Fredericktown appreciation rates in the latest quarter were at 2.66%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 11.08%.
Importantly, this makes Fredericktown 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 Missouri, our data show that Fredericktown's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 60% of the other cities and towns in Missouri.
$135,611
for Missouri
for nation
1,596
$1,362 / per month