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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 4,141, 904 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $242,050, house prices in Wingate are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Wingate, accounting for 80.91% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Wingate include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 12.99%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 2.56%), and a few mobile homes or trailers ( 2.36%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Wingate are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The town has a mixture of owners and renters, with 46.13% owning and 53.87% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Wingate 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 Wingate built between 2000 and later ( 27.66%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 24.31%). There's also some housing in Wingate built before 1939 ( 3.54%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Wingate. Fully 11.02% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Wingate homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Wingate 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.
In the last 10 years, Wingate has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Wingate real estate appreciated 120.58% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 8.23%, putting Wingate in the top 20% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Wingate definitely has a track record of being one of the best long term real estate investments in America through the last ten years.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Wingate's appreciation rate, at 5.53%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Wingate's appreciation rate has been 1.72%, which annualizes to a rate of 7.07%.
Relative to North Carolina, our data show that Wingate's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 60% of the other cities and towns in North Carolina.
$242,050
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904
$1,829 / per month