Analytics built by: Location, Inc.
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 4,253, 1,468 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $118,845, house prices in Comanche are some of the most affordable in Texas as well as the nation.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Comanche, accounting for 80.39% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Comanche include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 5.57%), mobile homes or trailers ( 5.41%), and a few large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 4.81%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Comanche. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 67.57% of Comanche's homes, and 60.90% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
There is a lot of housing in Comanche 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 Comanche built between 1940-1969 ( 37.03%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from before 1939 ( 14.31%). There's also some housing in Comanche built between 2000 and later ( 5.90%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Comanche. Fully 19.83% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Comanche homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Comanche 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 Comanche have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 93.93%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Comanche house appreciation rate of 6.85%.
Over the last year, Comanche appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Comanche's appreciation rate has been 4.44%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Comanche were at 1.51%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 6.17%.
Relative to Texas, our data show that Comanche's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 50% of the other cities and towns in Texas.
$118,845
for Texas
for nation
1,468
$1,301 / per month