Price trends for used vehicle listings by state, year, and vehicle type

Average prices, listing counts, and depreciation rates for used vehicle inventory by listing year, state, model year, and vehicle type. Includes annual depreciation rates calculated using exponential decay modeling on retention rates (price/MSRP) and the number of unique make-model-year combinations available in each state.

Usage

data(price_trends_used)

Format

A tibble with 8 variables:

Variable	Description
listing_year	Calendar year when listing was scraped (2018–2025)
state	US state abbreviation (e.g., "CA", "TX", "NY")
year	Model year of the vehicle
vehicle_type	Vehicle type: "car", "cuv", "suv", "pickup", "minivan"
avg_price	Average listing price (USD)
n_listings	Number of listings
dep_annual_rate	Annual depreciation rate (proportion, 0–1) for this state and listing year
n_make_model_year	Number of unique make-model-year combinations in this state

Source

Computed from used vehicle listings data from Marketcheck.

Examples

data(price_trends_used)

head(price_trends_used)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 8
#>   listing_year state  year vehicle_type avg_price n_listings dep_annual_rate
#>          <dbl> <chr> <dbl> <chr>            <dbl>      <int>           <dbl>
#> 1         2018 AK     2004 cuv              9563.          8          0.0649
#> 2         2018 AK     2004 pickup          14245.         31          0.0649
#> 3         2018 AK     2004 minivan          9606.          1          0.0649
#> 4         2018 AK     2004 car              9885.          7          0.0649
#> 5         2018 AK     2004 suv             10516.         13          0.0649
#> 6         2018 AK     2005 cuv              9596.         19          0.0649
#> # ℹ 1 more variable: n_make_model_year <int>