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Housing in Etna

A typical Etna home is worth roughly $107,000

Typical home value
$107K
IN $260K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$970
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$843
IN $1,614

What kind of housing town is Etna?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.8 years of income

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

You could afford about
$233,000
Typical Etna home $107K

That covers a typical Etna home, with $127K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$630
Loan $530Tax $70Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $340 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Etna’s typical property tax (0.79% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

90% of Etna households own their home

Half of Etna’s homes were built before 1985.

Owners and renters
Own 90%Rent 10%

Indiana: 71% own.

1985
typical home built · IN 1976
$843
median property tax bill · IN $1,614
0.79%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · IN 0.74%

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

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $970

Renters already here pay a median of $660, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$780
1 bedroom$790
2 bedrooms$970
3 bedrooms$1,200
4 bedrooms$1,360
10%
of households rent · IN 29%
32
renter households
$660
median rent paid today · Census

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

Next door

Etna vs. its neighbors

Etna is the least expensive of 6 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Etna$107K*—$970$59,048
Harrison$167K*+5.6%†$1,090$74,904
Scott$352K*+3.9%†$1,050$86,629
Prairie$235K*+4.3%†$1,180$84,333
Bourbon$259K+9.5%$980$75,804
Tippecanoe$250K+7.7%$990$61,122

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. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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