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Housing in Franklin

A typical Franklin home is worth roughly $118,000

Typical home value
$118K
AR $227K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$920
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$509
AR $1,040

What kind of housing town is Franklin?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Franklin

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You could afford about
$250,000
Typical Franklin home $118K

That covers a typical Franklin home, with $132K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$670
Loan $580Tax $50Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $920 a month here, $250 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Arkansas typical property tax (0.55% 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 Franklin households own their home

Half of Franklin’s homes were built before 1974.

Owners and renters
Own 99%Rent 1%

Arkansas: 66% own.

1974
typical home built · AR 1987
$509
median property tax bill · AR $1,040

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 $920

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$670
1 bedroom$720
2 bedrooms$920
3 bedrooms$1,260
4 bedrooms$1,490
1%
of households rent · AR 34%
1
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Izard County, AR): 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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