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 a population of 52,633, 14,712 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $667,424, real estate costs in Huntington Park 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 Huntington Park, accounting for 35.19% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Huntington Park include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 33.89%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 21.14%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 9.44%).
Huntington Park is dominated by renter-occupied one, two, or no bedrooms apartments. 75.81% of Huntington Park's dwellings are rentals.
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. Huntington Park's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 36.93% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Huntington Park include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 30.69%) and housing constructed before 1939 ( 29.35%). There's also some housing in Huntington Park built between 2000 and later ( 3.03%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Huntington Park have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 115.13%, which ranks in the top 30% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Huntington Park house appreciation rate of 7.96%.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Huntington Park's appreciation rate, at 6.34%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Huntington Park's appreciation rate has been 2.09%, which annualizes to a rate of 8.62%.
Relative to California, our data show that Huntington Park's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 50% 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 Huntington Park differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Huntington Park - 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 Huntington Park real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$667,424
for California
for nation
14,712
$2,203 / per month