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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 a population of 14,838, 6,824 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $188,076, house prices in Hazel Park are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Hazel Park, accounting for 87.14% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Hazel Park include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 9.19%), mobile homes or trailers ( 1.50%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 1.21%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Hazel Park are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 59.72% owning and 40.28% 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. Hazel Park's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 56.05% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Hazel Park include homes built before 1939 ( 20.69%) and housing constructed between 1970-1999 ( 15.49%). There's also some housing in Hazel Park built between 2000 and later ( 7.77%).
In the last 10 years, Hazel Park has experienced some of the highest home appreciation rates of any community in the nation. Hazel Park real estate appreciated 277.72% over the last ten years, which is an average annual home appreciation rate of 14.21%, putting Hazel Park in the top 10% nationally for real estate appreciation. If you are a home buyer or real estate investor, Hazel Park definitely has a track record of being one of the best long term real estate investments in America through the last ten years.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Hazel Park's appreciation rate, at 6.26%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Hazel Park's appreciation rate has been 1.70%, which annualizes to a rate of 6.96%.
Relative to Michigan, our data show that Hazel Park's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 50% of the other cities and towns in Michigan.
$188,076
for Michigan
for nation
6,824
$1,908 / per month