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 16,379 people, 7,184 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $390,731, La Vista real estate is some of the most expensive in Nebraska, although La Vista home values aren't among America's most expensive.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in La Vista, accounting for 61.65% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in La Vista include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 36.64%), row houses and other attached homes ( 1.06%).
The most prevalent building size and type in La Vista are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 54.81% owning and 45.19% renting.
There is a lot of housing in La Vista 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 La Vista built between 2000 and later ( 31.93%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 19.13%). There's also some housing in La Vista built before 1939 ( 1.82%).
Appreciation rates for homes in La Vista have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 92.78%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average La Vista house appreciation rate of 6.78%.
Over the last year, La Vista appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, La Vista's appreciation rate has been 3.04%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in La Vista were at 1.93%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 7.96%.
Relative to Nebraska, our data show that La Vista's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 80% of the other cities and towns in Nebraska.
$390,731
for Nebraska
for nation
7,184
$1,682 / per month