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 3,039, 1,530 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $138,980, house prices in Ajo are some of the most affordable in Arizona as well as the nation.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Ajo, accounting for 83.14% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Ajo include mobile homes or trailers ( 10.50%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 4.23%), and a few duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 2.14%).
Dwellings in Ajo tend to be quite small (one, two, or no bedrooms) and owner occupied. In fact, 56.29% of the homes in Ajo have two or fewer bedrooms.
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. Ajo's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 49.65% of the town's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Ajo include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 30.42%) and housing constructed before 1939 ( 16.12%). There's also some housing in Ajo built between 2000 and later ( 3.81%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Ajo. Fully 28.94% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Ajo homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Ajo 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.
Some of the lowest real estate appreciation rates in America over the last ten years have been in Ajo, where house values have increased just 47.16%, which is annualized rate of 3.94%. This rate is lower than the appreciation rate found in 90% of the cities and towns in America.
Over the last year, Ajo appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Ajo's appreciation rate has been 2.08%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Ajo were at 0.89%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 3.59%.
Relative to Arizona, our data show that Ajo's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 50% of the other cities and towns in Arizona.
$138,980
for Arizona
for nation
1,530
$1,113 / per month