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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 41,533 people, 15,169 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $1,427,565, San Bruno house prices are not only among the most expensive in California, San Bruno real estate also is some of the most expensive in all of America.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in San Bruno, accounting for 57.59% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in San Bruno include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 29.40%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 9.37%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 3.22%).
People in San Bruno primarily live in small (one, two or no bedroom) single-family detached homes. San Bruno has a mixture of owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing.
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. San Bruno's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 59.04% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in San Bruno include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 25.37%) and housing constructed between 2000 and later ( 8.07%). There's also some housing in San Bruno built before 1939 ( 7.52%).
San Bruno's appreciation rate notably has been below the national average for the last ten years. The average annual home appreciation rate in San Bruno during the period has been just 5.58%, which is lower than 70% of US communities.
Over the last year, San Bruno appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, San Bruno's appreciation rate has been 3.94%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in San Bruno were at 2.58%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 10.71%.
Relative to California, our data show that San Bruno's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 60% 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 San Bruno differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in San Bruno - 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 San Bruno real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$1,427,565
for California
for nation
15,169
$4,604 / per month