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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 251,350 people, 97,869 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $234,770, Winston-Salem 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 Winston-Salem, accounting for 61.53% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Winston-Salem include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 25.67%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 6.35%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 4.51%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Winston-Salem are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 51.96% owning and 48.04% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Winston-Salem 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 Winston-Salem built between 1940-1969 ( 28.85%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 19.77%). There's also some housing in Winston-Salem built before 1939 ( 7.72%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Winston-Salem. Fully 12.06% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Winston-Salem homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Winston-Salem 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.
Appreciation rates for homes in Winston-Salem have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 93.57%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Winston-Salem house appreciation rate of 6.83%.
Appreciation rates are so strong in Winston-Salem that despite a nationwide downturn in the housing market, Winston-Salem real estate has continued to appreciate in value faster than most communities. Looking at just the latest twelve months, Winston-Salem appreciation rates continue to be some of the highest in America, at 7.26%, which is higher than appreciation rates in 84.85% of the cities and towns in the nation. Based on the last twelve months, short-term real estate investors have found good fortune in Winston-Salem. Winston-Salem appreciation rates in the latest quarter were at 4.57%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 19.58%.
Relative to North Carolina, our data show that Winston-Salem's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 70% of the other cities and towns in North Carolina.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Winston-Salem differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Winston-Salem - 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 Winston-Salem real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$234,770
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97,869
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