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 12,832, 5,496 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $605,350, Rochester house prices are not only among the most expensive in Michigan, Rochester real estate also is some of the most expensive in all of America.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Rochester, accounting for 51.70% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Rochester include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 34.25%), row houses and other attached homes ( 9.37%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 4.46%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Rochester. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 65.36% of Rochester's homes, and 48.48% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
There is a lot of housing in Rochester 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 Rochester built between 1940-1969 ( 25.19%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 21.43%). There's also some housing in Rochester built before 1939 ( 9.59%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Rochester have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 95.01%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Rochester house appreciation rate of 6.91%.
Over the last year, Rochester appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Rochester's appreciation rate has been 6.86%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Rochester were at 2.24%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 9.26%.
Relative to Michigan, our data show that Rochester's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 70% of the other cities and towns in Michigan.
$605,350
for Michigan
for nation
5,496
$1,999 / per month