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 1,528 people, 656 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $163,857, house prices in Bourbon are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Bourbon, accounting for 61.69% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Bourbon include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 17.31%), mobile homes or trailers ( 11.62%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 8.72%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Bourbon are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 54.57% owning and 45.43% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Bourbon 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 Bourbon built between 1940-1969 ( 31.70%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 20.74%). There's also some housing in Bourbon built before 1939 ( 8.59%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Bourbon. Fully 13.34% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Bourbon homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Bourbon 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.
Real estate appreciation rates in Bourbon's have tracked to near the national average over the last then years, with the annual appreciation rate averaging 5.87% during the period.
Over the last year, Bourbon appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Bourbon's appreciation rate has been 1.97%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Bourbon were at -0.73%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -2.89%.
Notably, Bourbon's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Missouri, our data show that Bourbon's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 50% of the other cities and towns in Missouri.
$163,857
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