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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 9,845 people, 3,890 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $432,826, Alamosa real estate prices are well above average cost compared to national prices.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Alamosa, accounting for 55.44% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Alamosa include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 19.83%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 19.66%), and a few mobile homes or trailers ( 3.07%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Alamosa are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 39.57% owning and 60.43% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Alamosa 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 Alamosa built between 1940-1969 ( 25.57%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 24.14%). There's also some housing in Alamosa built before 1939 ( 11.88%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Alamosa have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 105.19%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Alamosa house appreciation rate of 7.45%.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Alamosa's appreciation rate, at 7.78%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Alamosa's appreciation rate has been -0.63%, which annualizes to a rate of -2.49%.
Notably, Alamosa's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Colorado, our data show that Alamosa's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 90% of the other cities and towns in Colorado.
$432,826
for Colorado
for nation
3,890
$1,423 / per month