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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 a population of 18,337, 6,897 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $505,511, Lake St. Louis real estate is some of the most expensive in Missouri, although Lake St. Louis home values aren't among America's most expensive.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Lake St. Louis, accounting for 69.13% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Lake St. Louis include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 13.70%), row houses and other attached homes ( 12.57%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 4.60%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Lake St. Louis. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 78.49% of Lake St. Louis's homes, and 60.77% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
There is a lot of housing in Lake St. Louis 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 Lake St. Louis built between 2000 and later ( 42.54%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 3.90%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Lake St. Louis have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 107.28%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Lake St. Louis house appreciation rate of 7.56%.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Lake St. Louis's appreciation rate, at 6.65%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Lake St. Louis's appreciation rate has been -0.41%, which annualizes to a rate of -1.64%.
Relative to Missouri, our data show that Lake St. Louis's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 70% of the other cities and towns in Missouri.
$505,511
for Missouri
for nation
6,897
$1,981 / per month