Analytics built by: Location, Inc.
Raw data sources: American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Methodology: NeighborhoodScout uses over 600 characteristics to build a neighborhood profile… Read more about Scout's Real Estate Data
With 78,418 people, 26,508 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $941,704, real estate costs in Tustin 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 Tustin, accounting for 36.42% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Tustin include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 35.47%), row houses and other attached homes ( 15.29%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 9.86%).
People in Tustin primarily live in small (one, two or no bedroom) single-family detached homes. Tustin has a mixture of owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing.
There is a lot of housing in Tustin built from 1970 to 1999 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 Tustin built between 1940-1969 ( 27.79%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 19.49%). There's also some housing in Tustin built before 1939 ( 1.79%).
Real estate appreciation rates in Tustin's have tracked to near the national average over the last then years, with the annual appreciation rate averaging 5.99% during the period.
Over the last year, Tustin appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Tustin's appreciation rate has been 2.87%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Tustin were at 0.15%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 0.59%.
Relative to California, our data show that Tustin's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 60% 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 Tustin differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Tustin - 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 2000, to assist you in making the best Tustin real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$941,704
for California
for nation
26,508
$3,479 / per month