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 a population of 6,439, 2,135 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $215,942, house prices in Union Gap are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Union Gap, accounting for 67.69% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Union Gap include mobile homes or trailers ( 19.68%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 6.87%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 5.01%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Union Gap are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 63.37% owning and 36.63% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Union Gap 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 Union Gap built between 1940-1969 ( 36.75%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from before 1939 ( 13.30%). There's also some housing in Union Gap built between 2000 and later ( 9.04%).
Real estate appreciation rates in Union Gap's have tracked to near the national average over the last then years, with the annual appreciation rate averaging 6.62% during the period.
Over the last year, Union Gap appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Union Gap's appreciation rate has been 2.14%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Union Gap were at -0.81%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -3.21%.
Notably, Union Gap's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Washington, our data show that Union Gap's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 90% of the other cities and towns in Washington.
$215,942
for Washington
for nation
2,135
$1,439 / per month