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 292,627 people, 118,332 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $301,730, Lincoln real estate and house prices are near the national average for all cities and towns.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Lincoln, accounting for 56.12% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Lincoln include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 27.39%), row houses and other attached homes ( 8.36%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 6.53%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Lincoln are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 53.91% owning and 46.09% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Lincoln 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 Lincoln built between 2000 and later ( 25.13%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 22.66%). There's also some housing in Lincoln built before 1939 ( 12.87%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Lincoln have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 89.28%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Lincoln house appreciation rate of 6.59%.
Over the last year, Lincoln appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Lincoln's appreciation rate has been 2.45%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Lincoln were at 2.98%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 12.46%.
Relative to Nebraska, our data show that Lincoln's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 90% of the other cities and towns in Nebraska.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Lincoln differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Lincoln - 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 Lincoln real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$301,730
for Nebraska
for nation
118,332
$1,511 / per month