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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 12,559 people, 5,344 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $306,684, Woodhaven 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 Woodhaven, accounting for 61.47% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Woodhaven include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 21.03%), row houses and other attached homes ( 7.28%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 5.15%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Woodhaven. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 75.95% of Woodhaven's homes, and 65.12% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
There is a lot of housing in Woodhaven 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 Woodhaven built between 2000 and later ( 20.74%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 15.75%). There's also some housing in Woodhaven built before 1939 ( 1.99%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Woodhaven have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 97.99%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Woodhaven house appreciation rate of 7.07%.
Appreciation rates are so strong in Woodhaven that despite a nationwide downturn in the housing market, Woodhaven real estate has continued to appreciate in value faster than most communities. Looking at just the latest twelve months, Woodhaven appreciation rates continue to be some of the highest in America, at 8.95%, which is higher than appreciation rates in 75.80% of the cities and towns in the nation. Based on the last twelve months, short-term real estate investors have found good fortune in Woodhaven. Woodhaven appreciation rates in the latest quarter were at 4.56%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 19.51%.
Importantly, this makes Woodhaven one of the highest appreciating communities in the nation for the latest quarter, and may signal the city's near-future real estate investment strength.
Relative to Michigan, our data show that Woodhaven's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 60% of the other cities and towns in Michigan.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Woodhaven differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Woodhaven - or in any city or town - that have the best track record of real estate appreciation, by the latest quarter, the last year, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, or even since 2000, to assist you in making the best Woodhaven real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$306,684
for Michigan
for nation
5,344
$1,655 / per month