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 a population of 1,472,909, 542,817 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $256,454, San Antonio 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 San Antonio, accounting for 59.55% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in San Antonio include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 28.86%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 7.66%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 2.37%).
The most prevalent building size and type in San Antonio are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 51.07% owning and 48.93% renting.
There is a lot of housing in San Antonio 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 San Antonio built between 2000 and later ( 27.18%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 25.28%). There's also some housing in San Antonio built before 1939 ( 5.26%).
In the last 10 years, San Antonio has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. San Antonio real estate appreciated 111.23% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 7.76%, putting San Antonio in the top 20% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, San Antonio 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, San Antonio appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, San Antonio's appreciation rate has been 1.52%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in San Antonio were at -0.96%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -3.79%.
Notably, San Antonio's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Texas, our data show that San Antonio's latest annual appreciation rate is lower 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 San Antonio differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in San Antonio - 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 San Antonio real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$256,454
for Texas
for nation
542,817
$1,815 / per month