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Housing in Helt

A typical Helt home is worth roughly $105,000

Typical home value
$105K
IN $260K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,000
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$620
IN $1,614

What kind of housing town is Helt?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.7 years of income

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

You could afford about
$248,000
Typical Helt home $105K

That covers a typical Helt home, with $144K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$600
Loan $520Tax $50Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,000 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, Helt’s typical property tax (0.59% 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 Helt households own their home

Half of Helt’s homes were built before 1968.

Owners and renters
Own 90%Rent 11%

Indiana: 71% own.

1968
typical home built · IN 1976
$620
median property tax bill · IN $1,614
0.59%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · IN 0.74%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,000

Renters already here pay a median of $622, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$780
1 bedroom$790
2 bedrooms$1,000
3 bedrooms$1,200
4 bedrooms$1,400
11%
of households rent · IN 29%
104
renter households
24%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · IN 48%
20%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom
$622
median rent paid today · Census

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

Next door

Helt vs. its neighbors

Helt is the 2nd least expensive of 5 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Helt$105K*—$1,000$61,204
Wabash$109K*—$1,010$75,953
Reserve$94K*—$1,040$51,397
Vermillion$151K*—$1,040$58,750
Clinton$130K+0.3%$1,010$57,404

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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