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 1,935, 853 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $613,535, real estate costs in Coupeville are among some of the highest in the nation, although house prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive Washington communities.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Coupeville, accounting for 67.88% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Coupeville include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 15.76%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 8.08%), and a few mobile homes or trailers ( 4.43%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Coupeville are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The town has a mixture of owners and renters, with 61.40% owning and 38.60% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Coupeville 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 Coupeville built between 2000 and later ( 18.23%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from before 1939 ( 13.00%). There's also some housing in Coupeville built between 1940-1969 ( 10.94%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Coupeville. Fully 15.96% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Coupeville homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Coupeville 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 Coupeville have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 112.83%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Coupeville house appreciation rate of 7.85%.
Over the last year, Coupeville appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Coupeville's appreciation rate has been 3.41%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Coupeville were at 0.16%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 0.63%.
Notably, Coupeville's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Washington, our data show that Coupeville's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 60% of the other cities and towns in Washington.
$613,535
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$2,341 / per month