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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 49,244 people, 20,005 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $1,196,467, real estate costs in San Luis Obispo are among some of the highest in the nation, although house prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive California communities.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in San Luis Obispo, accounting for 45.17% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in San Luis Obispo include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 25.35%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 15.83%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 8.31%).
People in San Luis Obispo primarily live in small (one, two or no bedroom) single-family detached homes. San Luis Obispo has a mixture of owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing.
There is a lot of housing in San Luis Obispo 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 San Luis Obispo built between 1940-1969 ( 26.11%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 17.09%). There's also some housing in San Luis Obispo built before 1939 ( 10.31%).
San Luis Obispo's appreciation rate notably has been below the national average for the last ten years. The average annual home appreciation rate in San Luis Obispo during the period has been just 5.96%, which is lower than 70% of US communities.
Over the last year, San Luis Obispo appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, San Luis Obispo's appreciation rate has been 6.16%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in San Luis Obispo were at 1.93%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 7.97%.
Relative to California, our data show that San Luis Obispo's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 60% of the other cities and towns in California.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within San Luis Obispo differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in San Luis Obispo - 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 San Luis Obispo real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$1,196,467
for California
for nation
20,005
$2,524 / per month