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 21,523 people, 8,158 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $173,678, house prices in Alliance are some of the most affordable in Ohio as well as the nation.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Alliance, accounting for 70.08% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Alliance include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 13.83%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 13.06%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 2.93%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Alliance are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 47.60% owning and 52.40% renting.
The housing in Alliance was primarily built before 1939 ( 41.43%), making the housing stock in Alliance some of the oldest overall in America, although there is a range of ages of homes in Alliance. The next most important housing age is between 1940-1969 ( 29.18%), followed by between 1970-1999 ( 23.26%). There's also some housing in Alliance built between 2000 and later ( 6.14%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Alliance. Fully 10.14% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Alliance homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Alliance 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 Alliance have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 94.77%, which ranks in the top 50% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Alliance house appreciation rate of 6.89%.
Over the last year, Alliance appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Alliance's appreciation rate has been 2.40%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Alliance were at 0.40%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 1.59%.
Relative to Ohio, our data show that Alliance's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 70% of the other cities and towns in Ohio.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Alliance differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Alliance - 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 Alliance real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$173,678
for Ohio
for nation
8,158
$1,335 / per month