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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 1,655, 732 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $276,521, Kettle Falls real estate values are some of the lowest in Washington, although compared to real estate around the nation, Kettle Falls homes are still considered rather expensive.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Kettle Falls, accounting for 63.75% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Kettle Falls include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 21.59%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 8.23%), and a few mobile homes or trailers ( 6.04%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Kettle Falls are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 58.17% owning and 41.83% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Kettle Falls 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 Kettle Falls built between 1940-1969 ( 26.09%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 14.14%). There's also some housing in Kettle Falls built before 1939 ( 7.20%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Kettle Falls have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 98.56%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Kettle Falls house appreciation rate of 7.10%.
Over the last year, Kettle Falls appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Kettle Falls's appreciation rate has been -3.03%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Kettle Falls were at 0.85%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 3.46%.
Relative to Washington, our data show that Kettle Falls's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 90% of the other cities and towns in Washington.
$276,521
for Washington
for nation
732
$1,199 / per month