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 4,820 people, 1,878 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $305,482, Littlestown real estate and house prices are near the national average for all cities and towns.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Littlestown, accounting for 55.78% of the borough's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Littlestown include row houses and other attached homes ( 20.70%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 17.09%), and a few large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 5.88%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Littlestown. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 70.39% of Littlestown's homes, and 58.84% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
The housing in Littlestown was primarily built before 1939 ( 32.21%), making the housing stock in Littlestown some of the oldest overall in America, although there is a range of ages of homes in Littlestown. The next most important housing age is between 1970-1999 ( 24.36%), followed by between 1940-1969 ( 23.42%). There's also some housing in Littlestown built between 2000 and later ( 20.01%).
Littlestown's appreciation rate notably has been below the national average for the last ten years. The average annual home appreciation rate in Littlestown during the period has been just 5.48%, which is lower than 70% of US communities.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Littlestown's appreciation rate, at 11.06%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Littlestown's appreciation rate has been 8.45%, which annualizes to a rate of 38.35%.
Importantly, this makes Littlestown one of the highest appreciating communities in the nation for the latest quarter, and may signal the borough's near-future real estate investment strength.
Relative to Pennsylvania, our data show that Littlestown's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 70% of the other cities and towns in Pennsylvania.
$305,482
for Pennsylvania
for nation
1,878
$1,589 / per month