US Counties With the Highest House Price Change
2,650 US counties ranked by house price change, from highest to lowest. First are Gonzales County, TX (48.1), Evans County, GA (46.8) and Webster County, MS (45.5). The middle one of the 2,650 has 7.66.
What this measures
The percentage change in house prices from the year before, from homes that sold more than once. It only covers homes with a mortgage from Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. In small counties with few sales, it can jump around. Source: FHFA House Price Index.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 highest counties
Every state, highest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | % a year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vermont | 13.2 |
| 2 | Maine | 11.6 |
| 3 | New Jersey | 10.7 |
| 4 | Wisconsin | 10.6 |
| 5 | New Hampshire | 10.5 |
| 6 | Connecticut | 10.4 |
| 7 | South Carolina | 9.78 |
| 8 | Rhode Island | 9.73 |
| 9 | North Carolina | 8.81 |
| 10 | Arkansas | 8.67 |
| 11 | Florida | 8.48 |
| 12 | New York | 8.26 |
| 13 | Ohio | 8.23 |
| 14 | Georgia | 8.22 |
| 15 | Nebraska | 8.22 |
| 16 | Delaware | 8.15 |
| 17 | Indiana | 8.03 |
| 18 | New Mexico | 7.93 |
| 19 | Kentucky | 7.87 |
| 20 | Missouri | 7.86 |
| 21 | Virginia | 7.8 |
| 22 | Massachusetts | 7.68 |
| 23 | Illinois | 7.49 |
| 24 | Kansas | 7.43 |
| 25 | Pennsylvania | 7.41 |
| 26 | Tennessee | 7.41 |
| 27 | South Dakota | 7.38 |
| 28 | Michigan | 7.32 |
| 29 | Oklahoma | 7.22 |
| 30 | Iowa | 7.11 |
| 31 | Alabama | 7.09 |
| 32 | Montana | 6.9 |
| 33 | Hawaii | 6.79 |
| 34 | Alaska | 6.79 |
| 35 | West Virginia | 6.31 |
| 36 | Mississippi | 5.79 |
| 37 | Maryland | 5.72 |
| 38 | Wyoming | 5.67 |
| 39 | North Dakota | 5.21 |
| 40 | Texas | 4.36 |
| 41 | Minnesota | 4.34 |
| 42 | Arizona | 2.12 |
| 43 | Colorado | 2.01 |
| 44 | California | 1.81 |
| 45 | Louisiana | 1.57 |
| 46 | Washington | 1.24 |
| 47 | Oregon | 0.78 |
| 48 | Utah | 0.64 |
| 49 | Nevada | 0.3 |
| 50 | Idaho | -0.22 |
| 51 | District of Columbia | -2.84 |
More on house price change
- US Counties With the Lowest House Price Change
- House price change by US county: map by year and what it goes with
A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.