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 1,900 people, 794 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $154,891, house prices in Thayer are some of the most affordable in Missouri as well as the nation.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Thayer, accounting for 83.27% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Thayer include mobile homes or trailers ( 6.91%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 6.01%), and a few large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 2.91%).
People in Thayer primarily live in small (one, two or no bedroom) single-family detached homes. Thayer has a mixture of owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing.
There is a lot of housing in Thayer 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 Thayer built between 1940-1969 ( 31.26%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from before 1939 ( 13.23%). There's also some housing in Thayer built between 2000 and later ( 9.12%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Thayer. Fully 20.44% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Thayer homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Thayer 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 Thayer have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 88.96%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Thayer house appreciation rate of 6.57%.
Over the last year, Thayer appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Thayer's appreciation rate has been 0.75%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Thayer were at -0.73%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -2.90%.
Notably, Thayer's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Missouri, our data show that Thayer's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 70% of the other cities and towns in Missouri.
$154,891
for Missouri
for nation
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$1,150 / per month