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Housing in Bear Creek

A typical Bear Creek home is worth roughly $97,000

Typical home value
$97K
AL $242K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$850
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$260
AL $788

What kind of housing town is Bear Creek?

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 Alabama (3.8 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$213,000
Typical Bear Creek home $97K

That covers a typical Bear Creek home, with $116K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$530
Loan $480Tax $20Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $850 a month here, $320 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Bear Creek’s typical property tax (0.27% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $850

Renters already here pay a median of $760, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$600
1 bedroom$680
2 bedrooms$850
3 bedrooms$1,130
4 bedrooms$1,380
18%
of households rent · AL 30%
57
renter households
26%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · AL 49%
20%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom
$760
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

82% of Bear Creek households own their home

Half of Bear Creek’s homes were built before 1980.

Owners and renters
Own 82%Rent 18%

Alabama: 70% own.

1980
typical home built · AL 1986
$260
median property tax bill · AL $788
0.27%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · AL 0.38%
4%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.

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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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