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 5,629, 2,300 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $302,368, Silver Springs real estate and house prices are near the national average for all cities and towns.
Mobile homes or trailers are the single most common housing type in Silver Springs, accounting for 56.36% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Silver Springs include single-family detached homes ( 40.09%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 2.76%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in mobile homes or trailers are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Silver Springs. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 84.64% of Silver Springs's homes, and 68.44% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
There is a lot of housing in Silver Springs 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 Silver Springs built between 2000 and later ( 32.92%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 11.25%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Silver Springs. Fully 13.17% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Silver Springs homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Silver Springs 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.
Appreciation rates for homes in Silver Springs have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 112.04%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Silver Springs house appreciation rate of 7.81%.
Over the last year, Silver Springs appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Silver Springs's appreciation rate has been 0.99%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Silver Springs were at -0.51%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -2.02%.
Notably, Silver Springs's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Nevada, our data show that Silver Springs's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 60% of the other cities and towns in Nevada.
$302,368
for Nevada
for nation
2,300
$1,765 / per month