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 12,914 people, 5,556 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $380,173, Spearfish real estate is some of the most expensive in South Dakota, although Spearfish home values aren't among America's most expensive.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Spearfish, accounting for 45.38% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Spearfish include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 24.03%), mobile homes or trailers ( 11.14%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 10.40%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Spearfish are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 48.66% owning and 51.34% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Spearfish 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 Spearfish built between 2000 and later ( 33.38%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 18.39%). There's also some housing in Spearfish built before 1939 ( 10.84%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Spearfish have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 112.41%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Spearfish house appreciation rate of 7.82%.
Appreciation rates are so strong in Spearfish that despite a nationwide downturn in the housing market, Spearfish real estate has continued to appreciate in value faster than most communities. Looking at just the latest twelve months, Spearfish appreciation rates continue to be some of the highest in America, at 9.80%, which is higher than appreciation rates in 86.35% of the cities and towns in the nation. Based on the last twelve months, short-term real estate investors have found good fortune in Spearfish. Spearfish appreciation rates in the latest quarter were at 4.91%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 21.16%.
Importantly, this makes Spearfish 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 South Dakota, our data show that Spearfish's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 90% of the other cities and towns in South Dakota.
$380,173
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5,556
$1,517 / per month