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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.
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With a population of 5,910, 1,585 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $251,554, Alvarado real estate and house prices are near the national average for all cities and towns.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Alvarado, accounting for 74.92% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Alvarado include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 8.49%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 8.44%), and a few mobile homes or trailers ( 8.16%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Alvarado are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 61.39% owning and 38.61% renting.
Alvarado homes and real estate are some of the newest in America. 32.79% of Alvarado's housing was built since 2000, making the city have a very new look and feel. If you like the amenities of newer homes and subdivisions, then you will probably like what the Alvarado real estate market has to offer. Quite a bit of the housing here was also built between 1970-1999 ( 32.63%), and between 1940-1969 ( 32.57%). There's also some housing in Alvarado built before 1939 ( 2.01%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Alvarado. Fully 11.45% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Alvarado homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Alvarado real estate prices below levels they could achieve if vacant housing was absorbed into the market and became occupied. Housing vacancy rates are a useful measure to consider, along with other things, if you are a home buyer or a real estate investor.
In the last 10 years, Alvarado has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Alvarado real estate appreciated 164.82% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 10.23%, putting Alvarado in the top 10% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Alvarado definitely has a track record of being one of the best long term real estate investments in America through the last ten years.
Over the last year, Alvarado appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Alvarado's appreciation rate has been 6.95%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Alvarado were at 0.29%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 1.17%.
Relative to Texas, our data show that Alvarado's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 70% of the other cities and towns in Texas.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Alvarado differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Alvarado - 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 Alvarado real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$251,554
for Texas
for nation
1,585
$1,593 / per month