Average Housing Prices in the US
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leave a commentGorgeous infographic, but Phoenix is misspelled.
The median is not the average. This is a bit missleading
I’m familiar with both Denver and DC and think that what you can buy for $179k is not well represented here. Ok, maybe you can buy the houses shown for that price but I doubt those are representative of any sort of normal listing for the market.
Judging by the Miami picture prices will be falling alot more there for some time.
The author was probably still recovering from heat stroke when spelling Pheonix.
Indeed a great graphic!
it is phoenix.
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This is complete crap. Come to Minneapolis and show me a 4BR/1600 sq. foot home for $174.000 for me, I’ve been meaning to pick one up.
You don’t like New England?
this is picking the cheapest housing areas of southern california. within a 60 mile radius around my house, homes are not that cheap, and i live next to a rowdy high school and a train station.
these are misleadingly low.
Yeah, good luck finding a place in Oakland for $175K. Let alone an “average” place. That’s really about half (at the very least) what you’d expect to pay for something approaching “average” for Oakland.
This graphic is so ridiculously wrong it’s painful.
Last time I checked the US had 50 states not 48.
ps: Alaska real estate is absurd, but interesting…make a little more room on your map next time
Those numbers seem to be a bit misleading for the southern California area..
Unless it’s in a ghetto, where you and your spouse might argue over what gang your kids will join, good lock finding a house for $175K in Southern California
I agree with the earlier comment. A $189,000 house in DC would only be located in an area you would likely be shot going home. I live in a transitional neighborhood and the houses there start at $450,000. A condo in Adams Morgan or even Shaw would run around $210,000 for a one bedroom or studio.
I think some people here are misunderstanding this map. Mint is not saying that 175k is the average housing price in every area of the US, they are just showing what 175k can get you in selected areas in the US.
This means that in many places, 175k houses (more likely, condos) may exist but are extremely rare.
Good work Mint!
Of all the places in CA’s Bay Area, it shows Oakland only? What’s this map trying to prove?
That there is nothing available for $174K on the market in San Francisco. Doesn’t seem that difficult to infer.
This is based on BS stats. You can get a 1500 s.f. house in Philly for ~$170,000? Maybe in the hood. More likely you will pay $300,000 for a 1,000 s.f. town house in a place where you will only have to worry a little bit about getting stabbed.
According to this, the most expensive place is Seattle. Which ill admit, my city is expensive as hell to live in. but there is no way you get more for $175k in NYC or SF and LA than you do here. My house(2,000sq feet, amazing neighborhood, huge yard, etc) runs close to $500k. In SF it would be about 1-1.5 Million… I know this because i spent months looking to see if i could afford to move to SF.
From what i gather this piece really cherry picks data just for the sake of making this into an infographic. It almost seems like the author of this just hunted for $175k listings in each city, picked one, and used it solely as the representation for each city. It’s the only way this makes any sense.
It just /looks like/ it is conveying information….
Alaska? Hawaii?
Agree 100% this inforgraphic is BULL. Working the Detroit real estate market I know that Detroit is NOT EVEN CLOSE to what the actual story is here. The 5 bedroom/5 bath home listed you can pick up for $60k today. Homes in the 10-15k sq. ft. are going for $200k.