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Housing in Vandiver

A typical Vandiver home is worth roughly $105,000

Typical home value
$105K
AL $242K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,480
a month, utilities in · HUD

What kind of housing town is Vandiver?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 2.1 years of income

Less than across Alabama (3.8 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$210,000
Typical Vandiver home $105K

That covers a typical Vandiver home, with $105K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$580
Loan $520Tax $30Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,480 a month here, $900 more than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

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.

The homes

68% of Vandiver households own their home

Half of Vandiver’s homes were built before 1995.

Owners and renters
Own 68%Rent 33%

Alabama: 70% own.

1995
typical home built · AL 1986

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 $1,480

Renters already here pay a median of $978, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,190
1 bedroom$1,330
2 bedrooms$1,480
3 bedrooms$1,850
4 bedrooms$2,090
33%
of households rent · AL 30%
84
renter households
$978
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Birmingham-Hoover, 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.

Next door

Vandiver vs. its neighbors

The towns that share a border with Vandiver. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Vandiver$105K*—$1,480$49,783
Dunnavant$193K*−3.8%†$1,130$75,323

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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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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