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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 4,574 people, 1,602 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $260,463, house prices in Haughton are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Haughton, accounting for 69.33% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Haughton include mobile homes or trailers ( 30.23%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Haughton. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 76.64% of Haughton's homes, and 77.54% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
Haughton homes and real estate are some of the newest in America. 44.75% of Haughton's housing was built since 2000, making the town have a very new look and feel. If you like the amenities of newer homes and subdivisions, then you will probably like what the Haughton real estate market has to offer. Quite a bit of the housing here was also built between 1970-1999 ( 43.56%), and between 1940-1969 ( 11.26%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Haughton. Fully 12.89% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Haughton homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Haughton real estate prices below levels they could achieve if vacant housing was absorbed into the market and became occupied. Housing vacancy rates are a useful measure to consider, along with other things, if you are a home buyer or a real estate investor.
Some of the lowest real estate appreciation rates in America over the last ten years have been in Haughton, where house values have increased just 52.44%, which is annualized rate of 4.31%. This rate is lower than the appreciation rate found in 90% of the cities and towns in America.
Over the last year, Haughton appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Haughton's appreciation rate has been 0.88%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Haughton were at -0.38%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -1.52%.
Relative to Louisiana, our data show that Haughton's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 80% of the other cities and towns in Louisiana.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the town. Individual neighborhoods within Haughton differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Haughton - 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 Haughton real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$260,463
for Louisiana
for nation
1,602
$1,511 / per month