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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 201,731 people, 81,846 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $285,148, Tallahassee 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 Tallahassee, accounting for 40.34% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Tallahassee include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 35.24%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 11.78%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 10.65%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Tallahassee are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 36.37% owning and 63.63% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Tallahassee 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 Tallahassee built between 2000 and later ( 25.58%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 19.34%). There's also some housing in Tallahassee built before 1939 ( 1.80%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Tallahassee. Fully 12.46% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Tallahassee homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Tallahassee 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.
Appreciation rates for homes in Tallahassee have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 97.43%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Tallahassee house appreciation rate of 7.04%.
Over the last year, Tallahassee appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Tallahassee's appreciation rate has been 3.94%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Tallahassee were at 4.44%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 18.97%.
Importantly, NeighborhoodScout’s exclusive research found that Tallahassee's housing market shows one of the <a href="/blog/highest-appreciating-cities">top real estate appreciation rates in the U.S.A.</a> in the latest quarter, which may signal the city’s near-future real estate investment strength.
Relative to Florida, our data show that Tallahassee's latest annual appreciation rate is lower 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 city. Individual neighborhoods within Tallahassee differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Tallahassee - 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 Tallahassee real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$285,148
for Florida
for nation
81,846
$2,070 / per month