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Housing in Appleton

A typical Appleton home is worth roughly $117,000

Typical home value
$117K
KS $250K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$990
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,902
KS $2,798

What kind of housing town is Appleton?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.9 years of income

Less than across Kansas (3.4 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$223,000
Typical Appleton home $117K

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

The typical home, each month
$770
Loan $580Tax $160Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $990 a month here, $220 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Appleton’s typical property tax (1.63% 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

78% of Appleton households own their home

Half of Appleton’s homes were built before 1952.

Owners and renters
Own 78%Rent 22%

Kansas: 67% own.

1952
typical home built · KS 1976
$1,902
median property tax bill · KS $2,798
1.63%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · KS 1.29%
4%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

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 $990

Renters already here pay a median of $900, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$720
1 bedroom$830
2 bedrooms$990
3 bedrooms$1,230
4 bedrooms$1,430
22%
of households rent · KS 33%
60
renter households
$900
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Clark County, KS): 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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