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Housing in Orange

A typical Orange home is worth roughly $359,000

Typical home value
$359K
IN $260K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,180
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,477
IN $1,614

What kind of housing town is Orange?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Orange

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You could afford about
$287,000
Typical Orange home $359K

That’s $72K short of a typical Orange home.

The typical home, each month
$2,100
Loan $1,780Tax $220Insurance $100

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,180 a month here, $920 less than owning.

How Orange ranks on affordability →

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Indiana typical property tax (0.74% 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 $1,180

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$870
1 bedroom$970
2 bedrooms$1,180
3 bedrooms$1,490
4 bedrooms$1,720
31%
of households rent · IN 29%
39
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Decatur 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 Orange’s houses are on the National Register

Half of Orange’s homes were built before 1965.

History →
Owners and renters
Own 69%Rent 31%

Indiana: 71% own.

1965
typical home built · IN 1976
$1,477
median property tax bill · IN $1,614
Historic houses in Orange

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

Next door

Orange vs. its neighbors

Orange is the priciest of 7 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Orange$359K*—$1,180$56,528
Anderson$155K*—$1,030$91,563
Walker$161K*+10%†$1,070$52,667
Adams$153K*—$1,110$55,385
Liberty$261K*−12.4%†$1,480$81,250
Union$256K*+9.3%†$1,240$99,397
Rushville$210K+2.4%$970$57,639

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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