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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 1,508 people, 915 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $224,689, house prices in Ocklawaha are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Ocklawaha, accounting for 74.79% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Ocklawaha include mobile homes or trailers ( 20.85%), row houses and other attached homes ( 4.36%).
Dwellings in Ocklawaha tend to be quite small (one, two, or no bedrooms) and owner occupied. In fact, 66.00% of the homes in Ocklawaha have two or fewer bedrooms.
There is a lot of housing in Ocklawaha 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 Ocklawaha built between 1940-1969 ( 30.90%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 15.49%). There's also some housing in Ocklawaha built before 1939 ( 12.40%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Ocklawaha. Fully 23.37% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Ocklawaha homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Ocklawaha 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, Ocklawaha has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Ocklawaha real estate appreciated 177.91% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 10.76%, putting Ocklawaha in the top 10% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Ocklawaha definitely has a track record of being one of the best long term real estate investments in America through the last ten years.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Ocklawaha's appreciation rate, at 6.33%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Ocklawaha's appreciation rate has been 2.19%, which annualizes to a rate of 9.07%.
Relative to Florida, our data show that Ocklawaha's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 50% of the other cities and towns in Florida.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the town. Individual neighborhoods within Ocklawaha differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Ocklawaha - 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 Ocklawaha real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$224,689
for Florida
for nation
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$1,188 / per month