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Housing in Mecca

A typical Mecca home is worth roughly $52,000

Typical home value
$52K
IN $260K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$960
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$403
IN $1,614

What kind of housing town is Mecca?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.3 years of income

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

You could afford about
$159,000
Typical Mecca home $52K

That covers a typical Mecca home, with $106K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$310
Loan $260Tax $30Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $960 a month here, $650 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Mecca’s 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.

The homes

54% of Mecca households own their home

Half of Mecca’s homes were built before 1938.

Owners and renters
Own 54%Rent 46%

Indiana: 71% own.

1938
typical home built · IN 1976
$403
median property tax bill · IN $1,614
0.77%
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 $960

Renters already here pay a median of $589, 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$1,260
4 bedrooms$1,310
46%
of households rent · IN 29%
71
renter households
$589
median rent paid today · Census

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

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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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