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 37,948 people, 13,792 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $381,930, Douglasville real estate prices are well above average cost compared to national prices.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Douglasville, accounting for 57.93% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Douglasville include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 31.40%), row houses and other attached homes ( 5.85%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 4.14%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Douglasville are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 47.84% owning and 52.16% renting.
Douglasville homes and real estate are some of the newest in America. 51.10% of Douglasville's housing was built since 2000, making the city have a very new look and feel. If you like the amenities of newer homes and subdivisions, then you will probably like what the Douglasville real estate market has to offer. Quite a bit of the housing here was also built between 1970-1999 ( 40.30%), and between 1940-1969 ( 8.25%).
In the last 10 years, Douglasville has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Douglasville real estate appreciated 184.67% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 11.03%, putting Douglasville in the top 10% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Douglasville definitely has a track record of being one of the best long term real estate investments in America through the last ten years.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Douglasville's appreciation rate, at 6.48%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Douglasville's appreciation rate has been 2.20%, which annualizes to a rate of 9.09%.
Relative to Georgia, our data show that Douglasville's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 60% of the other cities and towns in Georgia.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Douglasville differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Douglasville - 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 Douglasville real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$381,930
for Georgia
for nation
13,792
$2,493 / per month