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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 4,821 people, 1,658 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $385,701, Osage Beach real estate is some of the most expensive in Missouri, although Osage Beach home values aren't among America's most expensive.
Large apartment complexes or high rise apartments are the single most common housing type in Osage Beach, accounting for 54.50% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Osage Beach include single-family detached homes ( 34.62%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 5.78%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 3.30%). This particular housing mix is relatively uncommon and characteristic of cities that are compact and walkable, and which often have a lively downtown.
The most prevalent building size and type in Osage Beach are three and four bedroom dwellings. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 61.20% owning and 38.80% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Osage Beach 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 Osage Beach built between 2000 and later ( 17.59%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 6.53%).
A decent proportion of the Osage Beach housing stock is seasonally occupied. That is, homes and condos in Osage Beach are occupied by people for a portion of the year - mainly for vacation purposes - and then locked up and left unoccupied for the remainder of the year as owners return to their primary residences. This characteristic of the Osage Beach housing market speaks to its popularity as a vacation location of choice.
Appreciation rates for homes in Osage Beach have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 89.25%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Osage Beach house appreciation rate of 6.59%.
Over the last year, Osage Beach appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Osage Beach's appreciation rate has been 0.93%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Osage Beach were at -0.73%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -2.90%.
Notably, Osage Beach's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Missouri, our data show that Osage Beach's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 60% of the other cities and towns in Missouri.
$385,701
for Missouri
for nation
1,658
$1,228 / per month