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CityVille Housing Guide & Statistics

introduction – new population system – table – review – conclusion

Introduction

Housing in CityVille is an important part of CityVille. I know there are several guides around claiming to know what the best houses are. But, however, they all consider decorations in it. I’m a normal player. I don’t have the brain power to calculate how to create several hundred percent of profit while shoving everyone in an unwalkable and unnavigable town.

As a regular player I want to know what houses I can build at a reasonable cost while getting a nice return. However, I don’t build homes for profit return. I build them for population. But, coin return is a very nice incentive. I can’t help it. But I like to go for the “pretty” look as well as population, and a nice coin return to my play style.

New Population System

On April 23rd, 2011 Zynga released an update to Cityville that made population numbers change. These numbers are now no longer set but “Up to # Population”. How do you get these? Well, simple, collect from them. When you collect from a house you have a chance to gain extra population, like collectibles.

On April 28th, 2011 this notice was released in the game to explain the new system:

Table

I have compiled a list of the current housing that can be built from the building menu. All of this table fields are sortable to help you make the best decision. Below the table is my quick analysis. Feel free to comment with your thoughts. .

Name	Cost	Pop	Cost/Pop	Collections	Rent	Time	Hourly
Cozy Cottage	200	10	20	Peaceful Living	50	1 hour	50
Family Townhouse	400	20	20	Suburbia	100	4 hours	25
Country Home	600	30	20	Rural	10	5 mins	120
Suburban House	800	40	20	Suburbia	180	18 hours	10
Loft Apartments	1000	50	20	Main Street	220	2.1 days	4.37
Spring Bangalow	9000	130	69.23	Peaceful Living	72	2 hours	36
Modern Chateau	1500	60	25	High Society	200	1 day	8.34
Lake House	10 Cash	90	n/a	Peaceful Living	180	2 hours	90
Terraced Brownstone	2500	70	35.71	City Life	150	8 hours	18.75
Stylish Contemporary	3500	80	43.75	Main Street	240	3.1 days	3.23
Apartment Complex	4500	90	50	City Life	210	1 day	8.75
Ranch House	6000	100	60	Rural	189	18 hours	10.5
TV Terrace	10500	190	55.26	Suburbia	11	5 mins	132
Milan Apartments	7000	100	70	Italian Cuisine	215	1 day	8.96
Upscale Condos	8000	110	72.72	Down Town	52	1 hour	52
Bay Point Duplex	30000	230	130.43	Suburbia	102	4 hours	25.5
Tuscan Villa	9500	110	86.36	Italian Cuisine	80	2 hours	40
Colonial Chalet	10000	120	83.33	High Society	158	8 hours	19.75
Breezy Cabin	20000	250	80	Suburbia	303	3.1 days	4.07
Hotel Suites	12500	130	96.15	Down Town	231	2.1 days	4.58
Sprawling Mansion	15000	140	107.14	High Society	195	18 hours	10.83
Timeshare Tower	30000	140	214.28	Tourism	230	1 day	9.88
Skyscraper Condos	500000	300	1666.67	Jet Setter	105	4 hours	26.25
Beachfront Condo	500000	240	2083.34	Tourism	328	18 hours	18.06
Midtown Apartments	1100000	800	1375	City Life	84	2 hours	42
Glass Condos	600000	400	1500	Jet Setter	165	8 hours	20.63
Atrium Lofts	750000	500	1500	Jet Setter	220	1 day	9.17
Parkside Villa	1750000	1300	1346.15	High Society	12	5 mins	144
Garden Cottage	1000000	1180	847.46	Suburbia	195	8 hours	24.38
Spring House	30 Cash	920	N/A	unknown	109	5 mins	1308

Review

Yes. I know I could have done more to the table, like profit per population for overall, and per hour. I may add it later. But, right now when building housing you are generally targeting for one thing: population. I provided these extras just for awesome statistics. Please note all of these numbers are flat, and not increased by decoration.

Most Profitable: The most profitable housing buildings are the ones that produce rent every five minutes. These three are: Parkside Villa, TV Terrace, and Country Home. When we avoid these to save on energy. So the next two most profitable per hour would be Lake House, but that would cost you ten CityVille cash. The two most profitable that are not five minute collections that are bought with coins would be Upscale Condos, and Cozy Cottages.

Cheapest Cost per Population: Population is a big part of the game to unlock goals, sell goods at businesses. Cozy Cottage, Family Townhouse, Country Home, Suburban House and Loft Apartments are the cheapest at 20 coins per population. However, these take up lots of room! So, I would go for something in the “medium” ranges that have a semi-high population, but low cost per. For example, Terraced Brownstone with 70 population at the cost of 35.71 coins each. Or Tuscan Villas for 86.36 each. Both have a “decent” coin return as well.

Conclusion

I have random play times. Do you come online to check CityVille every day? Day or two? A couple times a day? Take a look at the table above, and figure out what the best is for you. I gave samples above for generic. But, I have no idea what the best for you is. :].

I hope you find this useful! If you have any thoughts, theory crafting, or tips about CityVille Housing, let us know in the comments! Share them please. ^^. If feedback is decent, I will do a guide for the Businesses. :].