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 60,382 people, 25,720 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $332,690, Great Falls real estate prices are well above average cost compared to national prices.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Great Falls, accounting for 64.74% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Great Falls include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 17.49%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 9.73%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 4.03%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Great Falls are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 64.11% owning and 35.89% 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. Great Falls's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 42.76% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Great Falls include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 29.56%) and housing constructed before 1939 ( 15.83%). There's also some housing in Great Falls built between 2000 and later ( 11.84%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Great Falls have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 97.63%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Great Falls house appreciation rate of 7.05%.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Great Falls's appreciation rate, at 7.65%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Great Falls's appreciation rate has been -2.97%, which annualizes to a rate of -11.37%.
Notably, Great Falls's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Montana, our data show that Great Falls's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 90% of the other cities and towns in Montana.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Great Falls differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Great Falls - 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 Great Falls real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$332,690
for Montana
for nation
25,720
$1,295 / per month