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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 16,343 people, 6,082 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $378,085, Dickson real estate prices are well above average cost compared to national prices.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Dickson, accounting for 72.01% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Dickson include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 13.84%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 7.12%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 4.99%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Dickson are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 64.51% owning and 35.49% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Dickson 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 Dickson built between 1940-1969 ( 20.33%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 18.00%). There's also some housing in Dickson built before 1939 ( 11.69%).
In the last 10 years, Dickson has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Dickson real estate appreciated 136.76% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 9.00%, putting Dickson in the top 10% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Dickson definitely has a track record of being one of the best long term real estate investments in America through the last ten years.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Dickson's appreciation rate, at 5.71%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Dickson's appreciation rate has been 1.16%, which annualizes to a rate of 4.72%.
Relative to Tennessee, our data show that Dickson's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 50% of the other cities and towns in Tennessee.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Dickson differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Dickson - 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 Dickson real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$378,085
for Tennessee
for nation
6,082
$1,793 / per month