Analytics built by: Location, Inc.
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 660 people, 336 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $242,263, house prices in Micanopy are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Micanopy, accounting for 78.75% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Micanopy include mobile homes or trailers ( 10.39%), row houses and other attached homes ( 5.54%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 5.31%).
Dwellings in Micanopy tend to be quite small (one, two, or no bedrooms) and owner occupied. In fact, 49.19% of the homes in Micanopy have two or fewer bedrooms.
There is a lot of housing in Micanopy 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 Micanopy built between 1940-1969 ( 27.48%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 22.17%). There's also some housing in Micanopy built before 1939 ( 14.78%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Micanopy. Fully 22.40% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Micanopy homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Micanopy 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 Micanopy have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 96.33%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Micanopy house appreciation rate of 6.98%.
Over the last year, Micanopy appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Micanopy's appreciation rate has been 1.36%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Micanopy were at 1.65%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 6.78%.
Importantly, this makes Micanopy one of the highest appreciating communities in the nation for the latest quarter, and may signal the town's near-future real estate investment strength.
Relative to Florida, our data show that Micanopy's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 70% of the other cities and towns in Florida.
$242,263
for Florida
for nation
336
$1,486 / per month