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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 183,289 people, 77,844 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $212,767, house prices in Mobile are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Mobile, accounting for 67.18% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Mobile include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 24.57%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 5.51%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 1.34%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Mobile are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 49.02% owning and 50.98% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Mobile 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 Mobile built between 1940-1969 ( 37.10%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 11.10%). There's also some housing in Mobile built before 1939 ( 5.44%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Mobile. Fully 14.38% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Mobile homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Mobile 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.
Real estate appreciation rates in Mobile's have tracked to near the national average over the last then years, with the annual appreciation rate averaging 5.80% during the period.
Over the last year, Mobile appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Mobile's appreciation rate has been 4.51%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Mobile were at -0.19%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -0.75%.
Notably, Mobile's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Alabama, our data show that Mobile's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 60% of the other cities and towns in Alabama.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Mobile differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Mobile - 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 Mobile real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$212,767
for Alabama
for nation
77,844
$1,662 / per month