Analytics built by: Location, Inc.
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 a population of 4,552, 2,453 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $817,620, real estate costs in Guerneville are among some of the highest in the nation, although house prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive California communities.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Guerneville, accounting for 83.82% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Guerneville include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 9.99%), mobile homes or trailers ( 2.77%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 1.95%).
Dwellings in Guerneville tend to be quite small (one, two, or no bedrooms) and owner occupied. In fact, 58.20% of the homes in Guerneville have two or fewer bedrooms.
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. Guerneville's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 41.36% of the town's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Guerneville include homes built before 1939 ( 27.03%) and housing constructed between 1970-1999 ( 26.21%). There's also some housing in Guerneville built between 2000 and later ( 5.41%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Guerneville. Fully 22.91% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Guerneville homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Guerneville 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 Guerneville have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 94.75%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Guerneville house appreciation rate of 6.89%.
Over the last year, Guerneville appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Guerneville's appreciation rate has been 3.74%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Guerneville were at 1.67%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 6.86%.
Relative to California, our data show that Guerneville's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 60% of the other cities and towns in California.
$817,620
for California
for nation
2,453
$2,339 / per month