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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 15,430, 5,186 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $167,510, house prices in Uvalde are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Uvalde, accounting for 78.75% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Uvalde include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 9.27%), mobile homes or trailers ( 5.84%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 5.48%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Uvalde are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 60.22% owning and 39.78% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Uvalde 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 Uvalde built between 1940-1969 ( 28.82%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 23.67%). There's also some housing in Uvalde built before 1939 ( 7.38%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Uvalde. Fully 10.99% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Uvalde homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Uvalde 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.
Uvalde's appreciation rate notably has been below the national average for the last ten years. The average annual home appreciation rate in Uvalde during the period has been just 5.22%, which is lower than 80% of US communities.
Over the last year, Uvalde appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Uvalde's appreciation rate has been 1.39%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Uvalde were at 1.51%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 6.17%.
Relative to Texas, our data show that Uvalde's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 80% of the other cities and towns in Texas.
$167,510
for Texas
for nation
5,186
$1,859 / per month