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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 3,597 people, 1,384 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $170,295, house prices in West Columbia are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in West Columbia, accounting for 79.50% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in West Columbia include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 12.39%), mobile homes or trailers ( 4.22%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 2.28%).
The most prevalent building size and type in West Columbia are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 63.73% owning and 36.27% renting.
There is a lot of housing in West Columbia 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 West Columbia built between 1940-1969 ( 43.74%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 7.23%). There's also some housing in West Columbia built before 1939 ( 3.35%).
Appreciation rates for homes in West Columbia have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 94.61%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average West Columbia house appreciation rate of 6.88%.
Over the last year, West Columbia appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, West Columbia's appreciation rate has been 6.67%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in West Columbia were at 2.68%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 11.16%.
Relative to Texas, our data show that West Columbia's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 70% of the other cities and towns in Texas.
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