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 87,792 people, 31,238 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $276,812, Bryan 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 Bryan, accounting for 54.45% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Bryan include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 22.95%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 13.04%), and a few mobile homes or trailers ( 6.39%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Bryan are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 46.84% owning and 53.16% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Bryan 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 Bryan built between 2000 and later ( 32.57%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 18.73%). There's also some housing in Bryan built before 1939 ( 2.83%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Bryan. Fully 10.64% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Bryan homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Bryan 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 Bryan have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 105.94%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Bryan house appreciation rate of 7.49%.
Over the last year, Bryan appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Bryan's appreciation rate has been 5.24%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Bryan were at -3.43%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -13.03%.
Notably, Bryan's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Texas, our data show that Bryan's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 80% of the other cities and towns in Texas.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Bryan differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Bryan - 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 Bryan real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$276,812
for Texas
for nation
31,238
$1,694 / per month