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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 16,549 people, 6,222 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $167,444, house prices in Chickasha are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Chickasha, accounting for 75.12% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Chickasha include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 12.64%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 6.21%), and a few mobile homes or trailers ( 4.40%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Chickasha are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 49.51% owning and 50.49% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Chickasha 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 Chickasha built between 1940-1969 ( 34.28%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from before 1939 ( 16.76%). There's also some housing in Chickasha built between 2000 and later ( 6.20%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Chickasha. Fully 17.97% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Chickasha homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Chickasha 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.
Some of the lowest real estate appreciation rates in America over the last ten years have been in Chickasha, where house values have increased just 52.69%, which is annualized rate of 4.32%. This rate is lower than the appreciation rate found in 90% of the cities and towns in America.
Over the last year, Chickasha appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Chickasha's appreciation rate has been -0.10%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Chickasha were at 1.78%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 7.32%.
Relative to Oklahoma, our data show that Chickasha's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 90% of the other cities and towns in Oklahoma.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Chickasha differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Chickasha - 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 Chickasha real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$167,444
for Oklahoma
for nation
6,222
$1,179 / per month