Bartow appreciation rates and housing market information

Bartow housing market information

With a population of 15,341, 6,073 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $153,200, Bartow 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 Bartow, accounting for 73.09% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Bartow include mobile homes or trailers (10.01%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments, or other small apartment buildings (8.61%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments (6.92%), and a few row houses and other attached homes (1.37%).

Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Bartow. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 64.19% of Bartow's homes, and 55.63% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.

At the end of World War II, American soldiers returned home triumphant and, with the help of the GI Bill, built homes by the millions on the edges of America's cities. These homes were predominantly capes and ranches, modest in size, but built to house a growing middle-class as the 20th century became the American century. Bartow's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 42.65% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Bartow include homes built between 1970-1994 (39.09%), and housing constructed from 1939 and earlier (12.64%). There's also some housing in Bartow built between 1995 and later (5.62%).

Bartow home appreciation rates

Appreciation rates for homes in Bartow have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 117.43%, which ranks in the top 20% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Bartow house appreciation rate of 11.74%.

Over the last year, Bartow appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Bartow's appreciation rate has been -7.50%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Bartow were at -3.76%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -15.04%.

Notably, Bartow's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.

Relative to Florida, our data show that Bartow's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 78% of the other cities and towns in Florida.