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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 5,417 people, 1,981 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $370,563, Granite Shoals real estate prices are well above average cost compared to national prices.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Granite Shoals, accounting for 67.02% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Granite Shoals include mobile homes or trailers ( 24.57%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 4.98%), and a few large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 2.57%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Granite Shoals. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 78.75% of Granite Shoals's homes, and 60.94% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
There is a lot of housing in Granite Shoals 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 Granite Shoals built between 2000 and later ( 33.10%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 13.12%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Granite Shoals. Fully 22.86% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Granite Shoals homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Granite Shoals 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.
In the last 10 years, Granite Shoals has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Granite Shoals real estate appreciated 124.44% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 8.42%, putting Granite Shoals in the top 20% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Granite Shoals definitely has a track record of being one of the best long term real estate investments in America through the last ten years.
Over the last year, Granite Shoals appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Granite Shoals's appreciation rate has been 2.40%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Granite Shoals were at -0.76%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -2.99%.
Relative to Texas, our data show that Granite Shoals's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 70% of the other cities and towns in Texas.
$370,563
for Texas
for nation
1,981
$1,864 / per month