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Housing in Port Penn

A typical Port Penn home is worth roughly $384,000

Typical home value
$384K
DE $406K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$2,010
a month, utilities in · HUD

What kind of housing town is Port Penn?

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

★ What stands out · The homes

3 of Port Penn’s houses are on the National Register

Half of Port Penn’s homes were built before 1938.

History →
Owners and renters
Own 100%

Delaware: 73% own.

1938
typical home built · DE 1987
Historic houses in Port Penn

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.

Affordability

A typical home costs 5.3 years of income

More than across Delaware (4.8 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$297,000
Typical Port Penn home $384K

That’s $87K short of a typical Port Penn home.

The typical home, each month
$2,170
Loan $1,900Tax $160Insurance $110

A two-bedroom rents for about $2,010 a month here, $160 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Delaware typical property tax (0.50% 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 $2,010

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,550
1 bedroom$1,690
2 bedrooms$2,010
3 bedrooms$2,410
4 bedrooms$2,690
0%
of households rent · DE 27%

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

On the market in Port Penn

Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.

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What Port Penn buyers, sellers and renters are saying.

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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. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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