Median home sale price · 1963 Verified
$18,000in April 1963 — about $197,086 in today's money.
- Price in 1963$18,000
- Same money today$197,086
- Actual price now · January 2026$403,200
- Change since 1963+2140%
Priced in working time
- Work to buy in 1963 · the federal minimum wage was $1.15/hour15,652 hours
- Work to buy today · at $7.25/hour (2026)55,614 hours
Observed price divided by the observed wage for the same year — nothing here is back-cast. See the minimum wage record →
Price history
Record & method
This is an observed price. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded it in April 1963; we have not adjusted the figure.
- Source
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED. Public domain.
- Series
- MSPUS
- Observed
- April 1963
- Coverage
- January 1963 – January 2026
- Adjusted by
- CPIAUCNS · 30.5 → 333.952 (June 2026)
- License
- Public domain