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 6,520, 1,908 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $124,236, house prices in Oakdale are solidly below the national average.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Oakdale, accounting for 73.54% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Oakdale include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 11.70%), large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 6.15%), and a few mobile homes or trailers ( 4.49%).
The most prevalent building size and type in Oakdale are three and four bedroom dwellings, chiefly found in single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 46.45% owning and 53.55% renting.
There is a lot of housing in Oakdale 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 Oakdale built between 1940-1969 ( 42.22%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from before 1939 ( 9.97%). There's also some housing in Oakdale built between 2000 and later ( 4.75%).
Vacant housing appears to be an issue in Oakdale. Fully 29.78% of the housing stock is classified as vacant. Left unchecked, vacant Oakdale homes and apartments can be a drag on the real estate market, holding Oakdale 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 Oakdale, where house values have increased just 36.14%, which is annualized rate of 3.13%. This rate is lower than the appreciation rate found in 90% of the cities and towns in America.
Over the last year, Oakdale appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Oakdale's appreciation rate has been 2.01%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Oakdale were at -3.70%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -14.01%.
Notably, Oakdale's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Louisiana, our data show that Oakdale's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 50% of the other cities and towns in Louisiana.
$124,236
for Louisiana
for nation
1,908
$1,207 / per month