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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 1,965, 839 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $298,459, Effort real estate and house prices are near the national average for all cities and towns.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Effort, accounting for 89.09% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Effort include row houses and other attached homes ( 4.21%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 2.70%), and a few large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 2.59%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Effort. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 80.10% of Effort's homes, and 77.11% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
There is a lot of housing in Effort 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 Effort built between 1940-1969 ( 18.68%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 9.40%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Effort have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 87.73%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Effort house appreciation rate of 6.50%.
Over the last year, Effort appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Effort's appreciation rate has been 2.49%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Effort were at -5.36%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -19.78%.
Notably, Effort's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Pennsylvania, our data show that Effort's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 90% of the other cities and towns in Pennsylvania.
$298,459
for Pennsylvania
for nation
839
$2,450 / per month