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Housing in Savoonga

A typical Savoonga home is worth roughly $100,000

Typical home value
$100K
AK $399K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,530
a month, utilities in · HUD

What kind of housing town is Savoonga?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.9 years of income

Less than across Alaska (4.3 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$204,000
Typical Savoonga home $100K

That covers a typical Savoonga home, with $104K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$620
Loan $500Tax $90Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,530 a month here, $910 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Alaska typical property tax (1.11% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

99% of Savoonga households own their home

Half of Savoonga’s homes were built before 1982.

Owners and renters
Own 99%Rent 1%

Alaska: 67% own.

1982
typical home built · AK 1986
2%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,530

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,220
1 bedroom$1,330
2 bedrooms$1,530
3 bedrooms$2,130
4 bedrooms$2,520
1%
of households rent · AK 33%

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Nome Census Area, AK): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

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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.

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