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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.
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With a population of 24,355, 10,820 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $219,663, house prices in Riverside are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Riverside, accounting for 63.27% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Riverside include row houses and other attached homes ( 12.71%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 11.19%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 9.14%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Riverside are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 55.73% owning and 44.27% renting.
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. Riverside's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 58.68% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Riverside include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 29.07%) and housing constructed between 2000 and later ( 7.24%). There's also some housing in Riverside built before 1939 ( 5.01%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Riverside have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 105.17%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Riverside house appreciation rate of 7.45%.
Over the last year, Riverside appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Riverside's appreciation rate has been 3.16%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Riverside were at 2.95%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 12.32%.
Relative to Ohio, our data show that Riverside's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 90% of the other cities and towns in Ohio.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Riverside differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Riverside - 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 Riverside real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$219,663
for Ohio
for nation
10,820
$1,347 / per month