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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 32,473 people, 8,696 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $600,987, real estate costs in Uniondale are among some of the highest in the nation, although house prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive New York communities.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Uniondale, accounting for 70.63% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Uniondale include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 18.81%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 5.04%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 5.00%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Uniondale are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The town has a mixture of owners and renters, with 63.87% owning and 36.13% renting.
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. Uniondale's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 55.41% of the town's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Uniondale include homes built between 2000 and later ( 19.73%) and housing constructed before 1939 ( 15.74%). There's also some housing in Uniondale built between 1970-1999 ( 9.11%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Uniondale have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 95.42%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Uniondale house appreciation rate of 6.93%.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Uniondale's appreciation rate, at 4.85%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Uniondale's appreciation rate has been 0.41%, which annualizes to a rate of 1.66%.
Relative to New York, our data show that Uniondale's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 90% of the other cities and towns in New York.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the town. Individual neighborhoods within Uniondale differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Uniondale - 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 Uniondale real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
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