Since just before the pandemic, home prices in the New York metro have risen 56.9% and in the Washington metro 30.0%. The US rose 60.5% over the same quarters, so New York has nearly kept pace with the US (−3.6 points) and Washington trails the US by 30.5 points.
Inside the city lines the two look alike: Washington, DC falls within the range of the New York boroughs. From 2019 to 2024, DC and every New York borough trailed the country, and Manhattan trailed furthest, 54.2 points behind. The gap is the measure this page uses: a place's cumulative price change since just before the pandemic, minus the country's. Choose any state, metro area, county or ZIP code in the explorer below and the chart draws the same comparison.
Key takeaways
- From 2019 to 2024, DC and every New York borough trailed the US, and Manhattan trailed furthest at 54.2 points behind.
- 22 of the 50 states and DC have risen more slowly than the US since Q1 2020, and DC is furthest behind at 46.8 points.
- 42% of metro areas and 54% of counties trail the national path.
- Every ZIP code in DC trails the US, and the fastest sits 18.8 points ahead of the slowest.
DC and New York side by side
Both metros are split into divisions, and the fair comparison is the division that holds each city: New York-Jersey City-White Plains, and Washington with its Maryland suburbs. Measured on the same quarters, New York has nearly kept pace with the US (−3.6 points) and Washington trails the US by 30.5 points.
| New York-Jersey City-White Plains, NY-NJ (MSAD) | +56.9% | −3.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Washington, DC-MD (MSAD) | +30.0% | −30.5 |
From 2019 to 2024, while the US rose 54.5%, Manhattan trailed furthest at 54.2 points behind, and the Bronx came closest among the boroughs at 25.4 points behind. Washington, DC sits at 40.0 points behind, inside the range of the New York boroughs.
| Manhattan (our index) | +0.3% | −54.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Washington, DC | +14.5% | −40.0 |
| Brooklyn | +16.7% | −37.8 |
| Staten Island | +21.5% | −33.0 |
| Queens | +23.7% | −30.8 |
| The Bronx | +29.1% | −25.4 |
Manhattan comes from our own repeat-sales index, built from recorded resales. It runs through 2024, so this comparison stops there for every city. The method section at the bottom of the page explains why Manhattan needs its own index.
Every state against the US
From Q1 2020 to Q2 2026, 22 of the 50 states and DC rose more slowly than the country. DC is last, Louisiana follows at 31.0 points behind, and Maine gained the most, 23.8 points ahead of the US. Click a column header to sort.
| District of Columbia | +13.7% | −46.8 |
|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | +29.5% | −31.0 |
| North Dakota | +43.0% | −17.5 |
| Colorado | +44.3% | −16.2 |
| Oregon | +44.4% | −16.1 |
| California | +45.7% | −14.8 |
| Minnesota | +47.1% | −13.4 |
| Maryland | +47.2% | −13.3 |
| Alaska | +48.4% | −12.1 |
| Iowa | +50.1% | −10.4 |
| Mississippi | +51.8% | −8.7 |
| Texas | +52.3% | −8.2 |
| Washington | +53.2% | −7.3 |
| Hawaii | +53.6% | −6.9 |
| Oklahoma | +55.4% | −5.1 |
| Wyoming | +55.9% | −4.6 |
| West Virginia | +56.3% | −4.2 |
| Nevada | +56.9% | −3.6 |
| Nebraska | +58.5% | −2.0 |
| South Dakota | +59.3% | −1.2 |
| Illinois | +59.9% | −0.6 |
| Massachusetts | +60.2% | −0.3 |
| New Mexico | +61.1% | +0.6 |
| Virginia | +61.2% | +0.7 |
| Delaware | +61.4% | +0.9 |
| Kansas | +61.5% | +1.0 |
| Pennsylvania | +61.7% | +1.2 |
| Alabama | +62.1% | +1.6 |
| Arkansas | +63.0% | +2.5 |
| Kentucky | +63.0% | +2.5 |
| Missouri | +63.4% | +2.9 |
| Michigan | +65.5% | +5.0 |
| Utah | +65.5% | +5.0 |
| Arizona | +65.8% | +5.3 |
| New York | +66.4% | +5.9 |
| Indiana | +67.6% | +7.1 |
| Ohio | +67.8% | +7.3 |
| Georgia | +69.1% | +8.6 |
| Florida | +70.0% | +9.5 |
| Wisconsin | +72.4% | +11.9 |
| North Carolina | +73.2% | +12.7 |
| Tennessee | +73.4% | +12.9 |
| Idaho | +73.5% | +13.0 |
| Montana | +75.0% | +14.5 |
| South Carolina | +75.2% | +14.7 |
| New Jersey | +78.2% | +17.7 |
| Vermont | +78.4% | +17.9 |
| Connecticut | +78.8% | +18.3 |
| Rhode Island | +80.6% | +20.1 |
| New Hampshire | +80.7% | +20.2 |
| Maine | +84.3% | +23.8 |
Metro areas
42% of metro areas trail the US over the same quarters, and the median metro area sits 2.9 points ahead of the country. San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA (MSAD) is furthest behind at 44.2 points, with Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA (MSAD) next. Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ leads the other end, 39.3 points ahead of the US.
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA (MSAD) | +16.3% | −44.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA (MSAD) | +21.4% | −39.1 |
| Lake Charles, LA | +22.2% | −38.3 |
| Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA | +22.4% | −38.1 |
| Odessa, TX | +23.6% | −36.9 |
| New Orleans-Metairie, LA | +24.9% | −35.6 |
| Chico, CA | +26.8% | −33.7 |
| Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA | +27.7% | −32.8 |
| Napa, CA | +29.9% | −30.6 |
| Washington, DC-MD (MSAD) | +30.0% | −30.5 |
| Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ | +99.8% | +39.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Hinesville, GA | +93.8% | +33.3 |
| Knoxville, TN | +93.3% | +32.8 |
| Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL (MSAD) | +90.8% | +30.3 |
| Lewiston-Auburn, ME | +90.1% | +29.6 |
| Camden, NJ (MSAD) | +88.8% | +28.3 |
| Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC | +88.5% | +28.0 |
| Vineland, NJ | +87.7% | +27.2 |
| Homosassa Springs, FL | +86.9% | +26.4 |
| Muncie, IN | +86.6% | +26.1 |
For the longer view of any metro area, with twenty years of history and its pace against its state, see the home appreciation by metro pages.
Counties
County indexes are annual, so the comparison runs from 2019 to 2025, against a US rise of 60.4% over those years. 54% of counties with a full index trail the country. Lincoln County, WV is furthest behind: its prices rose 2.7% while the country's rose 60.4%, a gap of 57.7 points. San Francisco County, CA is next.
| Lincoln County, WV | +2.7% | −57.7 |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco County, CA | +6.2% | −54.2 |
| Morehouse County, LA | +6.5% | −53.9 |
| Grant County, LA | +10.7% | −49.7 |
| Calcasieu County, LA | +12.5% | −47.9 |
| Walworth County, SD | +12.7% | −47.7 |
| Orleans County, LA | +13.4% | −47.0 |
| Ochiltree County, TX | +14.1% | −46.3 |
| Plaquemines County, LA | +14.5% | −45.9 |
| District of Columbia | +14.9% | −45.5 |
| Macon County, GA | +149.8% | +89.4 |
|---|---|---|
| Harrison County, MO | +149.2% | +88.8 |
| Adams County, ID | +145.8% | +85.4 |
| Essex County, VT | +124.6% | +64.2 |
| Saint Clair County, MO | +123.5% | +63.1 |
| Deer Lodge County, MT | +111.8% | +51.4 |
| Clay County, AL | +104.4% | +44.0 |
| Shoshone County, ID | +103.8% | +43.4 |
| Power County, ID | +103.0% | +42.6 |
| Hamilton County, TX | +101.8% | +41.4 |
Our county appreciation rankings carry one, five and ten year paces for every county with enough history.
ZIP codes
55% of ZIP codes with a full index trail the US since 2019. A tenth of them sit 22.5 points behind the country or further, and a tenth sit 19.5 points ahead of it or further. Type any five-digit ZIP code into the explorer above to see its line.
DC shows how much a city average hides. All 15 of its ZIP codes with a full index trail the country, yet ZIP 20002 is 51.4 points behind while ZIP 20012 is 32.6 points behind, a range of 18.8 points inside one city over the same years.
Below the ZIP code
A ZIP code index still averages every home in it, while Good Investment scores work at the level of the house. Each home gets its own score out of 10, ranked against comparable homes in its own local market, and where enough homes trade we map growth at neighborhood level, below the ZIP code, so you can see the home against the blocks around it.
The ZIP code index describes how the area moved, and the score places one address inside it. For more on why two homes in one ZIP code can follow different paths, read why two homes in the same ZIP code appreciate differently.
How the numbers are built
Every figure comes from the Federal Housing Finance Agency's all-transactions house price index, which tracks repeat sales and refinance appraisals on the same homes through mortgages bought or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Because it follows the same homes, the index measures price change on a steady basket, where a price-per-square-foot average moves with the mix of homes that sold that month. That difference is why other sources can put DC's gap a few points higher or lower. DC's index stood at 912.86 in Q1 2020, the quarter that held 1 March 2020, and at 1037.72 in Q2 2026. Manhattan is the one series on this page that is not FHFA's. FHFA publishes no index for Manhattan, because its index is built from mortgages bought or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and Manhattan's co-op share loans and large loans sit outside that data. Our own index tracks each Manhattan home's recorded resales over time with the same repeat-sales method FHFA uses, and it is annual.
States and metro areas are quarterly and start at Q1 2020. Counties and ZIP codes are annual, start at 2019, and are compared with the annual US index, the average of its four quarters. FHFA marks its county and ZIP code indexes as developmental. Figures are nominal, and a place appears only when its index is present for every period from the start to the latest release. The gap is the place's cumulative percentage change minus the country's, in percentage points. Data as of September 26, 2026.