Analytics built by: Location, Inc.
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 a population of 3,533, 1,383 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $229,132, house prices in Centerville are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Centerville, accounting for 79.24% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Centerville include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 8.08%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 7.90%), and a few mobile homes or trailers ( 4.47%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Centerville are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The town has a mixture of owners and renters, with 54.06% owning and 45.94% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Centerville 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 Centerville built between 1940-1969 ( 38.82%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from before 1939 ( 10.04%). There's also some housing in Centerville built between 2000 and later ( 5.27%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Centerville. Fully 15.31% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Centerville homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Centerville 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.
Appreciation rates for homes in Centerville have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 116.46%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Centerville house appreciation rate of 8.03%.
Over the last year, Centerville appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Centerville's appreciation rate has been 0.10%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Centerville were at 0.40%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 1.62%.
Relative to Tennessee, our data show that Centerville's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 90% of the other cities and towns in Tennessee.
$229,132
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for nation
1,383
$1,383 / per month