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 11,033 people, 4,052 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $525,961, Leicester real estate prices are well above average cost compared to national prices.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Leicester, accounting for 80.86% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Leicester include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 8.43%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 7.18%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 3.23%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Leicester. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 82.80% of Leicester's homes, and 62.16% 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. Leicester's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 30.08% of the town's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Leicester include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 27.78%) and housing constructed between 2000 and later ( 21.56%). There's also some housing in Leicester built before 1939 ( 20.58%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Leicester have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 107.64%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Leicester house appreciation rate of 7.58%.
Appreciation rates are so strong in Leicester that despite a nationwide downturn in the housing market, Leicester real estate has continued to appreciate in value faster than most communities. Looking at just the latest twelve months, Leicester appreciation rates continue to be some of the highest in America, at 8.52%, which is higher than appreciation rates in 75.93% of the cities and towns in the nation. Based on the last twelve months, short-term real estate investors have found good fortune in Leicester. Leicester appreciation rates in the latest quarter were at 3.22%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 13.53%.
Importantly, this makes Leicester one of the highest appreciating communities in the nation for the latest quarter, and may signal the town's near-future real estate investment strength.
Relative to Massachusetts, our data show that Leicester's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 60% of the other cities and towns in Massachusetts.
$525,961
for Massachusetts
for nation
4,052
$1,766 / per month