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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 86,967 people, 32,188 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $386,952, Danbury real estate prices are well above average cost compared to national prices.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Danbury, accounting for 42.86% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Danbury include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 23.97%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 19.70%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 12.17%).
People in Danbury primarily live in small (one, two or no bedroom) single-family detached homes. Danbury has a mixture of owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing.
There is a lot of housing in Danbury 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 Danbury built between 1940-1969 ( 28.09%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from before 1939 ( 17.12%). There's also some housing in Danbury built between 2000 and later ( 16.85%).
Danbury's appreciation rate notably has been below the national average for the last ten years. The average annual home appreciation rate in Danbury during the period has been just 5.17%, which is lower than 70% of US communities.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Danbury's appreciation rate, at 5.64%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Danbury's appreciation rate has been 5.73%, which annualizes to a rate of 24.99%.
Importantly, this makes Danbury one of the highest appreciating communities in the nation for the latest quarter, and may signal the city's near-future real estate investment strength.
Relative to Connecticut, our data show that Danbury's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 70% of the other cities and towns in Connecticut.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Danbury differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Danbury - 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 Danbury real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$386,952
for Connecticut
for nation
32,188
$3,224 / per month