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Housing in Alapaha

A typical Alapaha home is worth roughly $99,000

Typical home value
$99K
GA $331K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$980
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$973
GA $2,341

What kind of housing town is Alapaha?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Alapaha

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You could afford about
$305,000
Typical Alapaha home $99K

That covers a typical Alapaha home, with $206K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$580
Loan $490Tax $60Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $980 a month here, $400 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Georgia typical property tax (0.77% 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 $980

Renters already here pay a median of $477, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$740
1 bedroom$750
2 bedrooms$980
3 bedrooms$1,360
4 bedrooms$1,640
22%
of households rent · GA 34%
32
renter households
$477
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

78% of Alapaha households own their home

Half of Alapaha’s homes were built before 1961.

Owners and renters
Own 78%Rent 22%

Georgia: 66% own.

1961
typical home built · GA 1992
$973
median property tax bill · GA $2,341

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. 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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