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Housing in Dallas

A typical Dallas home is worth roughly $162,000

Typical home value
$162K
IN $260K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$960
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,110
IN $1,614

What kind of housing town is Dallas?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 2.1 years of income

Less than across Indiana (3.6 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$313,000
Typical Dallas home $162K

That covers a typical Dallas home, with $151K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$940
Loan $800Tax $90Insurance $50

A two-bedroom rents for about $960 a month here, $20 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, Dallas’s typical property tax (0.69% 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 $960

Renters already here pay a median of $692, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$690
1 bedroom$730
2 bedrooms$960
3 bedrooms$1,230
4 bedrooms$1,470
13%
of households rent · IN 29%
97
renter households
38%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · IN 48%
15%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom
$692
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

1 of Dallas’s houses are on the National Register

Half of Dallas’s homes were built before 1969.

History →
Owners and renters
Own 88%Rent 13%

Indiana: 71% own.

1969
typical home built · IN 1976
$1,110
median property tax bill · IN $1,614
0.69%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · IN 0.74%
Historic houses in Dallas

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.

Next door

Dallas vs. its neighbors

Dallas is the least expensive of 4 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Dallas$162K*—$960$77,727
Huntington$202K+5.2%$960$59,619
Lagro$207K+5.5%$1,000$82,394
Warren$234K+7.7%$960$100,179

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. 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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