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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 971,319, 375,851 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $331,713, Jacksonville real estate prices are well above average cost compared to national prices.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Jacksonville, accounting for 60.20% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Jacksonville include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 24.63%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 6.25%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 4.71%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Jacksonville are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 55.58% owning and 44.42% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville built between 2000 and later ( 28.93%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 24.50%). There's also some housing in Jacksonville built before 1939 ( 4.95%).
In the last 10 years, Jacksonville has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Jacksonville real estate appreciated 141.26% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 9.21%, putting Jacksonville in the top 10% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Jacksonville 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, Jacksonville appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Jacksonville's appreciation rate has been 2.27%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Jacksonville were at 2.13%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 8.82%.
Relative to Florida, our data show that Jacksonville's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 70% 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 Jacksonville differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Jacksonville - 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 Jacksonville real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$331,713
for Florida
for nation
375,851
$2,259 / per month