Albany, OR housing supply, ownership, and rent

Start with the dated local finding: Albany, OR's current ACS housing baseline includes 22,768 total housing units, 21,933 occupied units, and 835 vacant units. In practical terms, those counts may help a borrower establish the scale of the measured housing base before comparing tenure, rent, current listings, property condition, and financing. The figures describe stock across the survey period; they do not say that 835 homes were listed for sale or available to rent at one moment. For the decision at hand, reading 22,768 total units with 21,933 occupied and 835 vacant units keeps the release internally grounded while leaving live availability to current listing and property evidence.

Vacant units in Albany, OR decreased from 1,024 in the prior ACS period to 835 in the current release, a reported movement of 18.5%. In the current housing stock, 835 units equal 3.7% of the 22,768 total. ACS vacancy covers several statuses, so the 3.7% share cannot be read as the share of homes a buyer can purchase today or the share of rentals immediately available. For borrower planning, the movement from 1,024 to 835 may still prompt better questions about current for-sale and rental inventory in Albany, OR, provided those questions are answered with timely listing and property data rather than the survey count alone.