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 1,075 people, 399 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $121,426, house prices in Mayo are some of the most affordable in Florida as well as the nation.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Mayo, accounting for 49.38% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Mayo include mobile homes or trailers ( 31.82%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 16.94%), and a few large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 1.86%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Mayo are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The town has a mixture of owners and renters, with 48.97% owning and 51.03% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Mayo 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 Mayo built between 1940-1969 ( 25.21%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 25.21%). There's also some housing in Mayo built before 1939 ( 5.37%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Mayo. Fully 17.56% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Mayo homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Mayo 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 Mayo have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 97.33%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Mayo house appreciation rate of 7.03%.
Over the last year, Mayo appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Mayo's appreciation rate has been -0.25%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Mayo were at -2.36%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -9.13%.
Notably, Mayo's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Florida, our data show that Mayo's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 90% of the other cities and towns in Florida.
$121,426
for Florida
for nation
399
$1,696 / per month