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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 16,296 people, 4,429 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $265,203, Sunnyside real estate values are some of the lowest in Washington, although compared to real estate around the nation, Sunnyside homes are still considered rather expensive.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Sunnyside, accounting for 54.54% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Sunnyside include mobile homes or trailers ( 21.28%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 16.54%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 5.86%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Sunnyside are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 60.03% owning and 39.97% 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. Sunnyside's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 38.90% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Sunnyside include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 37.74%) and housing constructed between 2000 and later ( 18.49%). There's also some housing in Sunnyside built before 1939 ( 4.87%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Sunnyside have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 113.79%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Sunnyside house appreciation rate of 7.89%.
Over the last year, Sunnyside appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Sunnyside's appreciation rate has been -2.04%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Sunnyside were at 3.02%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 12.65%.
Importantly, this makes Sunnyside 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 Washington, our data show that Sunnyside's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 90% of the other cities and towns in Washington.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Sunnyside differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Sunnyside - 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 Sunnyside real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$265,203
for Washington
for nation
4,429
$2,058 / per month