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Housing in Smith Corner

A typical Smith Corner home is worth roughly $116,000

Home prices around Smith Corner have risen about 49% over the past 5 years.

Typical home value
$116K
▲ 2.6% in a year · CA $764K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,490
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,031
CA $5,124

What kind of housing town is Smith Corner?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 2.4 years of income

Less than across California (7.7 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$187,000
Typical Smith Corner home $116K

That covers a typical Smith Corner home, with $71K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$690
Loan $570Tax $90Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,490 a month here, $800 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Smith Corner’s typical property tax (0.89% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Price trend

Home prices up 49% in 5 years

The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Smith Corner rose 49% over the past 5 years, faster than across California (40%). Last year prices rose 2.6%.

Smith Corner areaCalifornia
0%+50%+100%+150%+200%+250%200020052010201520202025
+2.6%
past year
+49%
past 5 years
+90%
past 10 years

Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Smith Corner, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,490

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,140
1 bedroom$1,150
2 bedrooms$1,490
3 bedrooms$2,070
4 bedrooms$2,500
25%
of households rent · CA 44%
38
renter households

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

The homes

76% of Smith Corner households own their home

Half of Smith Corner’s homes were built before 1963.

Owners and renters
Own 76%Rent 25%

California: 56% own.

1963
typical home built · CA 1976
$1,031
median property tax bill · CA $5,124
0.89%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · CA 0.70%

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. 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.

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