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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 a population of 1,766, 763 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $205,181, house prices in Stockton are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Stockton, accounting for 69.72% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Stockton include mobile homes or trailers ( 13.39%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 7.42%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 6.69%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Stockton are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 61.96% owning and 38.04% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Stockton 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 Stockton built between 2000 and later ( 27.09%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 22.14%). There's also some housing in Stockton built before 1939 ( 15.45%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Stockton. Fully 21.42% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Stockton homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Stockton 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 Stockton have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 90.21%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Stockton house appreciation rate of 6.64%.
Over the last year, Stockton appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Stockton's appreciation rate has been 1.38%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Stockton were at -0.73%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -2.89%.
Notably, Stockton's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Missouri, our data show that Stockton's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 60% of the other cities and towns in Missouri.
$205,181
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$1,193 / per month