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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 35,985 people, 11,130 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $373,435, El Mirage real estate prices are well above average cost compared to national prices.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in El Mirage, accounting for 85.66% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in El Mirage include mobile homes or trailers ( 8.58%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 2.15%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 1.81%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in El Mirage. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 68.58% of El Mirage's homes, and 79.88% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
El Mirage homes and real estate are some of the newest in America. 73.97% of El Mirage'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 El Mirage real estate market has to offer. Quite a bit of the housing here was also built between 1970-1999 ( 20.89%), and between 1940-1969 ( 4.88%).
In the last 10 years, El Mirage has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. El Mirage real estate appreciated 196.79% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 11.49%, putting El Mirage in the top 10% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, El Mirage 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, El Mirage appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, El Mirage's appreciation rate has been 4.52%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in El Mirage were at 1.82%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 7.49%.
Relative to Arizona, our data show that El Mirage's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 50% of the other cities and towns in Arizona.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within El Mirage differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in El Mirage - 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 El Mirage real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$373,435
for Arizona
for nation
11,130
$2,894 / per month