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 13,930, 6,654 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $547,938, real estate costs in Grass Valley 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 Grass Valley, accounting for 51.07% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Grass Valley include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 27.61%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 9.69%), and a few mobile homes or trailers ( 7.28%).
People in Grass Valley primarily live in small (one, two or no bedroom) single-family detached homes. Grass Valley has a mixture of owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing.
There is a lot of housing in Grass Valley 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 Grass Valley built between 1940-1969 ( 21.10%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 18.69%). There's also some housing in Grass Valley built before 1939 ( 13.12%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Grass Valley have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 86.09%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Grass Valley house appreciation rate of 6.41%.
Over the last year, Grass Valley appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Grass Valley's appreciation rate has been -0.20%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Grass Valley were at 2.50%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 10.36%.
Importantly, this makes Grass Valley 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 California, our data show that Grass Valley's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 70% of the other cities and towns in California.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Grass Valley differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Grass Valley - 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 Grass Valley real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$547,938
for California
for nation
6,654
$1,899 / per month