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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 1,642 people, 620 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $187,207, house prices in Lumberton are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Lumberton, accounting for 77.34% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Lumberton include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 8.25%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 8.25%), and a few mobile homes or trailers ( 4.73%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Lumberton are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 44.36% owning and 55.64% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Lumberton 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 Lumberton built between 1940-1969 ( 20.35%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 10.12%). There's also some housing in Lumberton built before 1939 ( 10.01%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Lumberton. Fully 31.79% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Lumberton homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Lumberton 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 Lumberton have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 97.56%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Lumberton house appreciation rate of 7.05%.
Appreciation rates are so strong in Lumberton that despite a nationwide downturn in the housing market, Lumberton real estate has continued to appreciate in value faster than most communities. Looking at just the latest twelve months, Lumberton appreciation rates continue to be some of the highest in America, at 24.98%, which is higher than appreciation rates in 99.86% of the cities and towns in the nation. Based on the last twelve months, short-term real estate investors have found good fortune in Lumberton. Lumberton appreciation rates in the latest quarter were at -1.84%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -7.18%.
Notably, Lumberton's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Mississippi, our data show that Lumberton's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 90% of the other cities and towns in Mississippi.
$187,207
for Mississippi
for nation
620
$1,341 / per month