A typical home costs $690 more a month in Perry Township
A typical home in each town, bought with 20% down at 6.3% for 30 years, plus property tax at the town’s own rate and insurance. Change the numbers to fit you.
A dot marks the most on each row. Climate: NOAA 1991–2020 normals at the nearest station. Hazard risk: FEMA National Risk Index, expected yearly damage vs U.S. towns.
Everything, side by side
What matters to you?
Pick a few. Those rows jump to the top and the best fit on each is marked. There’s no overall score: what matters is up to you.
Perry TownshipBadger Township
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People
Population154Lowest161Highest
Median age84.3±14.5Highest 122% above SD44.3±4Lowest 17% above SD
Kids under 181.9%±17.3Lowest SD: 24.2%21.1%±25Highest SD: 24.2%
Badger Township and Perry Township are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.
Age 65+79.9%±95.6Highest SD: 18%18.6%±20.5Lowest SD: 18%
Perry Township and Badger Township are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2010 & 2020 censuses, LEHD commute flows; Zillow Home Value Index; NCES Common Core of Data; FBI crime reporting; CDC PLACES; FEMA National Risk Index; NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020; USGS PAD-US and OpenStreetMap. “±” is the Census margin of error; differences inside it are never called. Property tax is top-coded by the Census at $10,000+. There is no overall score: which town is better depends on what matters to you.