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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 68,034, 28,093 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $424,827, Grand Junction real estate prices are well above average cost compared to national prices.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Grand Junction, accounting for 63.52% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Grand Junction include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 16.15%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 9.22%), and a few mobile homes or trailers ( 5.68%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Grand Junction are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 60.04% owning and 39.96% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Grand Junction 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 Grand Junction built between 2000 and later ( 31.56%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 17.75%). There's also some housing in Grand Junction built before 1939 ( 9.19%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Grand Junction have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 107.42%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Grand Junction house appreciation rate of 7.57%.
Over the last year, Grand Junction appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Grand Junction's appreciation rate has been 0.41%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Grand Junction were at 1.72%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 7.06%.
Relative to Colorado, our data show that Grand Junction's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 90% of the other cities and towns in Colorado.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Grand Junction differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Grand Junction - 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 Grand Junction real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$424,827
for Colorado
for nation
28,093
$1,587 / per month