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 4,159 people, 1,547 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $302,203, Danville real estate is some of the most expensive in Alabama, although Danville home values aren't among America's most expensive.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Danville, accounting for 73.71% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Danville include mobile homes or trailers ( 21.48%), row houses and other attached homes ( 4.70%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Danville. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 80.79% of Danville's homes, and 78.90% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
There is a lot of housing in Danville 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 Danville built between 2000 and later ( 27.18%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 11.89%). There's also some housing in Danville built before 1939 ( 4.14%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Danville. Fully 17.41% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Danville homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Danville 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 Danville have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 89.85%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Danville house appreciation rate of 6.62%.
Over the last year, Danville appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Danville's appreciation rate has been 0.63%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Danville were at -2.72%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -10.43%.
Notably, Danville's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Alabama, our data show that Danville's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 90% of the other cities and towns in Alabama.
$302,203
for Alabama
for nation
1,547
$1,820 / per month