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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 4,145 people, 1,501 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $288,208, Linden 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 Linden, accounting for 83.08% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Linden include mobile homes or trailers ( 9.33%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 3.56%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 3.43%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Linden. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 91.58% of Linden's homes, and 80.69% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
There is a lot of housing in Linden 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 Linden built between 2000 and later ( 29.29%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 14.00%). There's also some housing in Linden built before 1939 ( 12.96%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Linden have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 102.94%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Linden house appreciation rate of 7.33%.
Over the last year, Linden appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Linden's appreciation rate has been 4.27%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Linden were at 2.46%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 10.20%.
Relative to Michigan, our data show that Linden's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 70% of the other cities and towns in Michigan.
$288,208
for Michigan
for nation
1,501
$1,320 / per month