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Housing in Bazine

A typical Bazine home is worth about $83,000

Up 7.4% in a year, 67% below the Kansas typical home.

Typical home value
$83K
▲ 7.4% in a year · KS $250K
Zillow
2-bedroom rent
$930
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,598
KS $2,798

What kind of housing town is Bazine?

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 Kansas (3.4 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$214,000
Typical Bazine home $83K

That covers a typical Bazine home, with $131K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$580
Loan $410Tax $140Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $930 a month here, $350 more than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Bazine’s typical property tax (2.09% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Price trend

Up 12.4% in five years

Slower than Kansas (30.3%).

BazineKansas
$50K$100K$150K$200K$250K20182020202220242026
Show as a table
JanuaryBazineKansas
2017$55,000$138,000
2018$56,000$144,000
2019$59,000$151,000
2020$63,000$160,000
2021$72,000$176,000
2022$77,000$198,000
2023$77,000$216,000
2024$75,000$225,000
2025$84,000$240,000
2026$78,000$246,000
August 2026$83,000$250,000
Then & now

A typical Bazine home worth $56K in September 2016 is worth about $83K today.

+$26K
+7.4%
past year
+12.4%
past 5 years
+46.5%
since 2016

Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $930

Renters already here pay a median of $529, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$670
1 bedroom$730
2 bedrooms$930
3 bedrooms$1,250
4 bedrooms$1,370
20%
of households rent · KS 33%
40
renter households
$529
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

80% of Bazine households own their home

Half of Bazine’s homes were built before 1962.

Owners and renters
Own 80%Rent 20%

Kansas: 67% own.

1962
typical home built · KS 1976
$1,598
median property tax bill · KS $2,798
2.09%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · KS 1.29%
8%
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.

Next door

Bazine vs. its neighbors

The towns that share a border with Bazine. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Bazine$83K+7.4%$930$64,420
Center$118K*—$900$64,583

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, August 2026. 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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