Tucson appreciation rates and housing market information

Tucson housing market information

With a population of 486,591, 209,792 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $186,939, Tucson real estate prices are well above average cost compared to national prices.

single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Tucson, accounting for 48.63% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Tucson include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments (27.30%), row houses and other attached homes (8.38%), mobile homes or trailers (7.78%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments, or other small apartment buildings (7.47%).

People in Tucson primarily live in small (one, two, or no bedroom) single-family detached homes. Tucson has a mixture of owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing.

There is a lot of housing in Tucson built from 1970-1994, so parts of town may have that "Brady Bunch" look of homes popular in the '70s and early '80s, although some of these houses were built up through the early '90s as well. There is also a lot of housing in Tucson built from 1940-1969 (35.61%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from 1995 and later (9.87%), and some were built from 1939 and earlier (9.87%).

Tucson home appreciation rates

Real estate appreciation rates in Tucson have tracked to near the national average over the last ten years, with the annual appreciation rate averaging 7.56% during the period.

Over the last year, Tucson appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Tucson's appreciation rate has been -10.53%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Tucson were at -0.75%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -3.00%.

Notably, Tucson's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.

Relative to Arizona, our data show that Tucson's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 40% of the other cities and towns in Arizona.

One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Tucson differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Tucson - or in any city or town - that have the best track record of real estate appreciation, by the latest quarter, the last year, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, or even since 1990, to assist you in making the best Tucson real estate investment or home purchase decisions.