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Housing in Pickensville

A typical Pickensville home is worth roughly $160,000

Typical home value
$160K
AL $210K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$860
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$345
AL $788

What kind of housing town is Pickensville?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 4.7 years of income

More than across Alabama (3.3 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$146,000
Typical Pickensville home $160K

That’s $14K short of a typical Pickensville home.

The typical home, each month
$870
Loan $790Tax $30Insurance $50

A two-bedroom rents for about $860 a month here, $10 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Pickensville’s typical property tax (0.22% 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 $860

Renters already here pay a median of $817.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$650
1 bedroom$660
2 bedrooms$860
3 bedrooms$1,100
4 bedrooms$1,430
15%
of households rent · AL 30%
16
renter households
$817
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

85% of Pickensville households own their home

Half of Pickensville’s homes were built before 1987.

Owners and renters
Own 85%Rent 15%

Alabama: 70% own.

1987
typical home built · AL 1986
$345
median property tax bill · AL $788
0.22%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · AL 0.38%
11%
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.

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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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