A typical Heath home is worth roughly $89,000
Home prices around Heath have risen about 39% over the past 5 years.
What kind of housing town is Heath?
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What it takes to buy in Heath
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That covers a typical Heath home, with $180K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $800 a month here, $300 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Alabama typical property tax (0.38% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Home prices up 39% in 5 years
The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Heath rose 39% over the past 5 years, slower than across Alabama (47%). Last year prices rose 2.6%.
Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Heath, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.
A two-bedroom rents for about $800
Renters already here pay a median of $377, 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 (Conecuh County, AL): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
52% of Heath households own their home
Half of Heath’s homes were built before 1973.
Alabama: 70% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Neighbors talk housing
What Heath buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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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. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. 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.