Los Alamos appreciation rates and housing market information

Los Alamos housing market information

With a population of 11,902, 5,463 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $395,787, Los Alamos house prices are not only among the most expensive in New Mexico, Los Alamos real estate also is some of the most expensive in all of America.

single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Los Alamos, accounting for 49.48% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Los Alamos include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments (19.49%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments, or other small apartment buildings (14.30%), row houses and other attached homes (12.19%), and a few mobile homes or trailers (4.54%).

Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Los Alamos. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 66.63% of Los Alamos's homes, and 54.51% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.

At the end of World War II, American soldiers returned home triumphant and, with the help of the GI Bill, built homes by the millions on the edges of America's cities. These homes were predominantly capes and ranches, modest in size, but built to house a growing middle-class as the 20th century became the American century. Los Alamos's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 63.70% of the town's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Los Alamos include homes built between 1970-1994 (29.67%), and housing constructed from 1995 and later (6.37%). There's also some housing in Los Alamos built between 1939 and earlier (.26%).

Los Alamos home appreciation rates

Appreciation rates for homes in Los Alamos have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 92.26%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Los Alamos house appreciation rate of 9.22%.

NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Los Alamos home appreciation rates, at 1.66%, have been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Los Alamos's appreciation rate has been 0.00%, which annualizes to a rate of 0.00%.

Relative to New Mexico, our data show that Los Alamos's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 72% of the other cities and towns in New Mexico.