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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 4,657 people, 1,994 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $146,793, house prices in Ahoskie are some of the most affordable in North Carolina as well as the nation.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Ahoskie, accounting for 61.97% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Ahoskie include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 20.53%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 8.10%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 6.03%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Ahoskie are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The town has a mixture of owners and renters, with 38.16% owning and 61.84% renting.
At the end of World War II, American soldiers returned home triumphant and, with the help of the GI Bill, built homes by the millions on the edges of America's cities. These homes were predominantly capes and ranches, modest in size, but built to house a growing middle-class as the 20th century became the American century. Ahoskie's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 44.35% of the town's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Ahoskie include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 35.41%) and housing constructed before 1939 ( 11.31%). There's also some housing in Ahoskie built between 2000 and later ( 8.94%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Ahoskie. Fully 17.12% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Ahoskie homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Ahoskie 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.
Ahoskie's appreciation rate notably has been below the national average for the last ten years. The average annual home appreciation rate in Ahoskie during the period has been just 5.16%, which is lower than 80% of US communities.
Over the last year, Ahoskie appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Ahoskie's appreciation rate has been 3.30%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Ahoskie were at 1.46%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 5.96%.
Relative to North Carolina, our data show that Ahoskie's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 80% of the other cities and towns in North Carolina.
$146,793
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1,994
$1,385 / per month