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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 17,427 people, 6,458 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $316,910, Stafford 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 Stafford, accounting for 49.77% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Stafford include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 39.14%), mobile homes or trailers ( 4.87%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 3.32%).
People in Stafford primarily live in small (one, two or no bedroom) single-family detached homes. Stafford has a mixture of owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing.
There is a lot of housing in Stafford 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 Stafford built between 2000 and later ( 24.57%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 5.35%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Stafford have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 96.07%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Stafford house appreciation rate of 6.96%.
Over the last year, Stafford appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Stafford's appreciation rate has been 2.68%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Stafford were at 1.69%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 6.92%.
Relative to Texas, our data show that Stafford's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 70% of the other cities and towns in Texas.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Stafford differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Stafford - 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 Stafford real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$316,910
for Texas
for nation
6,458
$1,814 / per month