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Housing in Rainbow

A typical Rainbow home is worth roughly $96,000

Typical home value
$96K
AZ $418K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,270
a month, utilities in · HUD

What kind of housing town is Rainbow?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 4.1 years of income

Less than across Arizona (5.2 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$95,000
Typical Rainbow home $96K

That’s $1K short of a typical Rainbow home.

The typical home, each month
$540
Loan $480Tax $40Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,270 a month here, $730 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 Arizona typical property tax (0.48% 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 $1,270

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$900
1 bedroom$980
2 bedrooms$1,270
3 bedrooms$1,740
4 bedrooms$1,810
27%
of households rent · AZ 33%
56
renter households

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

The homes

74% of Rainbow households own their home

Half of Rainbow’s homes were built before 1988.

Owners and renters
Own 74%Rent 27%

Arizona: 67% own.

1988
typical home built · AZ 1992
3%
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.

Next door

Rainbow vs. its neighbors

Rainbow is the 2nd least expensive of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Rainbow$96K*—$1,270$23,311
Whiteriver$60K*—$1,270$37,440
North Fork$105K*—$1,270$123,313

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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