A typical Point Hope home is worth roughly $167,000
What kind of housing town is Point Hope?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 2.2 years of income
Less than across Alaska (4.3 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Point Hope home, with $86K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,630 a month here, $470 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Point Hope’s typical property tax (2.02% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,630
Renters already here pay a median of $1,088, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (North Slope Borough, AK): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
55% of Point Hope households own their home
Half of Point Hope’s homes were built before 1982.
Alaska: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.