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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 11,497, 4,612 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $524,162, Prineville real estate prices are well above average cost compared to national prices.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Prineville, accounting for 64.32% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Prineville include mobile homes or trailers ( 11.40%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 9.57%), and a few large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 7.57%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Prineville are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 60.60% owning and 39.40% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Prineville 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 Prineville built between 2000 and later ( 31.49%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 22.95%). There's also some housing in Prineville built before 1939 ( 6.90%).
In the last 10 years, Prineville has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Prineville real estate appreciated 170.81% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 10.48%, putting Prineville in the top 10% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Prineville definitely has a track record of being one of the best long term real estate investments in America through the last ten years.
Over the last year, Prineville appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Prineville's appreciation rate has been 0.34%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Prineville were at 2.21%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 9.15%.
Relative to Oregon, our data show that Prineville's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 60% of the other cities and towns in Oregon.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Prineville differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Prineville - 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 Prineville real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$524,162
for Oregon
for nation
4,612
$1,726 / per month