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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 10,409 people, 4,184 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $460,214, Scituate real estate prices are well above average cost compared to national prices.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Scituate, accounting for 90.90% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Scituate include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 5.03%), row houses and other attached homes ( 2.74%), and a few large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 1.34%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Scituate. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 86.89% of Scituate's homes, and 70.58% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
There is a lot of housing in Scituate 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 Scituate built between 1940-1969 ( 27.53%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from before 1939 ( 25.17%). There's also some housing in Scituate built between 2000 and later ( 9.84%).
Real estate appreciation rates in Scituate's have tracked to near the national average over the last then years, with the annual appreciation rate averaging 6.15% during the period.
Over the last year, Scituate appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Scituate's appreciation rate has been 5.58%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Scituate were at 0.45%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 1.80%.
Relative to Rhode Island, our data show that Scituate's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 90% of the other cities and towns in Rhode Island.
$460,214
$2,818 / per month