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 1,554, 665 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $253,483, East Berlin 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 East Berlin, accounting for 65.49% of the borough's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in East Berlin include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 19.91%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 7.08%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 6.05%).
The most prevalent building size and type in East Berlin are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The borough has a mixture of owners and renters, with 62.43% owning and 37.57% renting.
There is a lot of housing in East Berlin 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 East Berlin built between 1940-1969 ( 28.91%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from before 1939 ( 25.37%). There's also some housing in East Berlin built between 2000 and later ( 12.98%).
Some of the lowest real estate appreciation rates in America over the last ten years have been in East Berlin, where house values have increased just 50.32%, which is annualized rate of 4.16%. This rate is lower than the appreciation rate found in 90% of the cities and towns in America.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, East Berlin's appreciation rate, at 8.66%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, East Berlin's appreciation rate has been 8.25%, which annualizes to a rate of 37.29%.
Importantly, this makes East Berlin one of the highest appreciating communities in the nation for the latest quarter, and may signal the borough's near-future real estate investment strength.
Relative to Pennsylvania, our data show that East Berlin's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 50% of the other cities and towns in Pennsylvania.
$253,483
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