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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 51,506 people, 20,505 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $186,057, house prices in Florissant are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Florissant, accounting for 79.64% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Florissant include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 13.04%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 5.25%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 1.66%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Florissant. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 65.02% of Florissant's homes, and 68.52% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
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. Florissant's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 75.65% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Florissant include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 20.35%) and housing constructed between 2000 and later ( 2.70%). There's also some housing in Florissant built before 1939 ( 1.30%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Florissant have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 97.35%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Florissant house appreciation rate of 7.03%.
Over the last year, Florissant appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Florissant's appreciation rate has been 4.48%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Florissant were at 1.09%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 4.45%.
Relative to Missouri, our data show that Florissant's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 60% of the other cities and towns in Missouri.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Florissant differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Florissant - 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 Florissant real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$186,057
for Missouri
for nation
20,505
$1,977 / per month