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 430,553 people, 170,282 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $829,616, real estate costs in Oakland 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 Oakland, accounting for 41.75% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Oakland include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 35.35%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 17.49%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 4.98%).
People in Oakland primarily live in small (one, two or no bedroom) single-family detached homes. Oakland has a mixture of owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing.
The housing in Oakland was primarily built before 1939 ( 36.64%), making the housing stock in Oakland some of the oldest overall in America, although there is a range of ages of homes in Oakland. The next most important housing age is between 1940-1969 ( 31.56%), followed by between 1970-1999 ( 21.19%). There's also some housing in Oakland built between 2000 and later ( 10.61%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Oakland have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 110.27%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Oakland house appreciation rate of 7.72%.
Over the last year, Oakland appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Oakland's appreciation rate has been -0.80%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Oakland were at -1.92%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -7.46%.
Notably, Oakland's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to California, our data show that Oakland's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 90% 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 Oakland differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Oakland - 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 Oakland real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$829,616
for California
for nation
170,282
$2,967 / per month