Anaheim appreciation rates and housing market information

Anaheim housing market information

With 327,357 people, 99,592 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $451,173, real estate costs in Anaheim are among some of the highest in the nation, although house prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive California communities.

single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Anaheim, accounting for 43.05% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Anaheim include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments (33.18%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments, or other small apartment buildings (10.42%), row houses and other attached homes (8.95%), and a few mobile homes or trailers (4.09%).

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

There is a lot of housing in Anaheim 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 Anaheim built from 1940-1969 (43.42%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from 1995 and later (5.16%), and some were built from 1939 and earlier (5.16%).

Anaheim home appreciation rates

Appreciation rates for homes in Anaheim have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 95.73%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Anaheim house appreciation rate of 9.57%.

Over the last year, Anaheim appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Anaheim's appreciation rate has been -15.08%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Anaheim were at -1.11%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -4.44%.

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

Relative to California, our data show that Anaheim's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 50% of the other cities and towns in California.

One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Anaheim differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Anaheim - 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 Anaheim real estate investment or home purchase decisions.