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 5,513 people, 1,494 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $361,462, Holtville real estate values are some of the lowest in California, although compared to real estate around the nation, Holtville homes are still considered rather expensive.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Holtville, accounting for 55.98% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Holtville include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 16.90%), mobile homes or trailers ( 13.76%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 9.47%).
People in Holtville primarily live in small (one, two or no bedroom) single-family detached homes. Holtville has a mixture of owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing.
There is a lot of housing in Holtville 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 Holtville built between 1940-1969 ( 28.80%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 2000 and later ( 22.42%). There's also some housing in Holtville built before 1939 ( 2.56%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Holtville. Fully 13.24% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Holtville homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Holtville 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 Holtville have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 117.66%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Holtville house appreciation rate of 8.09%.
Over the last year, Holtville appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Holtville's appreciation rate has been 2.18%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Holtville were at -3.46%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -13.15%.
Notably, Holtville's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to California, our data show that Holtville's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 70% of the other cities and towns in California.
$361,462
for California
for nation
1,494
$1,291 / per month