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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 4,080 people, 1,705 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $196,486, house prices in Brookfield are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Brookfield, accounting for 87.77% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Brookfield include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 5.63%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 2.99%), and a few mobile homes or trailers ( 2.41%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Brookfield. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 65.87% of Brookfield's homes, and 57.20% 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. Brookfield's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 48.63% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Brookfield include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 26.58%) and housing constructed before 1939 ( 22.44%). There's also some housing in Brookfield built between 2000 and later ( 2.36%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Brookfield. Fully 17.91% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Brookfield homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Brookfield 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 Brookfield have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 89.56%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Brookfield house appreciation rate of 6.60%.
Over the last year, Brookfield appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Brookfield's appreciation rate has been 0.69%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Brookfield were at -0.73%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -2.89%.
Notably, Brookfield's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Missouri, our data show that Brookfield's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 70% of the other cities and towns in Missouri.
$196,486
for Missouri
for nation
1,705
$1,029 / per month