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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 750 people, 311 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $185,456, house prices in Gouldsboro are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Gouldsboro, accounting for 86.53% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Gouldsboro include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 4.90%), row houses and other attached homes ( 4.08%), and a few large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 3.67%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Gouldsboro. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 73.11% of Gouldsboro's homes, and 66.73% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
The housing in Gouldsboro was primarily built before 1939 ( 37.14%), making the housing stock in Gouldsboro some of the oldest overall in America, although there is a range of ages of homes in Gouldsboro. The next most important housing age is between 1970-1999 ( 30.82%), followed by between 1940-1969 ( 18.16%). There's also some housing in Gouldsboro built between 2000 and later ( 13.88%).
A decent proportion of the Gouldsboro housing stock is seasonally occupied. That is, homes and condos in Gouldsboro are occupied by people for a portion of the year - mainly for vacation purposes - and then locked up and left unoccupied for the remainder of the year as owners return to their primary residences. This characteristic of the Gouldsboro housing market speaks to its popularity as a vacation location of choice.
Some of the lowest real estate appreciation rates in America over the last ten years have been in Gouldsboro, where house values have increased just 52.27%, which is annualized rate of 4.29%. 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, Gouldsboro's appreciation rate, at 9.36%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Gouldsboro's appreciation rate has been 4.92%, which annualizes to a rate of 21.18%.
Importantly, this makes Gouldsboro one of the highest appreciating communities in the nation for the latest quarter, and may signal the town's near-future real estate investment strength.
Relative to Pennsylvania, our data show that Gouldsboro's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 60% of the other cities and towns in Pennsylvania.
$185,456
for Pennsylvania
for nation
311
$1,340 / per month