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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 a population of 9,364, 3,541 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $140,031, house prices in Alma are some of the most affordable in Michigan as well as the nation.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Alma, accounting for 66.26% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Alma include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 17.17%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 9.53%), and a few mobile homes or trailers ( 5.06%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Alma are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 50.13% owning and 49.87% renting.
At the end of World War II, American soldiers returned home triumphant and, with the help of the GI Bill, built homes by the millions on the edges of America's cities. These homes were predominantly capes and ranches, modest in size, but built to house a growing middle-class as the 20th century became the American century. Alma's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 39.64% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Alma include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 34.24%) and housing constructed before 1939 ( 20.81%). There's also some housing in Alma built between 2000 and later ( 5.32%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Alma have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 91.69%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Alma house appreciation rate of 6.72%.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Alma's appreciation rate, at 7.04%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Alma's appreciation rate has been 0.88%, which annualizes to a rate of 3.56%.
Relative to Michigan, our data show that Alma's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 50% of the other cities and towns in Michigan.
$140,031
for Michigan
for nation
3,541
$1,309 / per month