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Housing in Bazine

A typical Bazine home is worth roughly $71,000

No new homes were permitted in 2025.

Typical home value
$71K
KS $250K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$970
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,588
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

What it takes to buy in Bazine

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You could afford about
$273,000
Typical Bazine home $71K

That covers a typical Bazine home, with $203K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$450
Loan $350Tax $80Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $520 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Kansas typical property tax (1.29% 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 $970

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$710
1 bedroom$750
2 bedrooms$970
3 bedrooms$1,310
4 bedrooms$1,400
32%
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.

New construction

No new homes permitted in 2025

No permits for new homes were issued in Bazine in 2025. The last year with any was 2021 (1 new home).

Single-family
01 200020052010201520202025
0
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
1
homes in the past 10 years
Homes vs. people, 2010–2020
Residents−52
New homes+0

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Bazine's population fell by 52 and no new homes were permitted. Across Kansas: 1.1 new residents per new home.

Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
2026 (Jan–Aug)000—
2025000—
2024000—
2023000—
2022000—
2021110$150,000
2020000—
2019000—
2018000—
2017000—
2016000—
2015000—
2014000—
2013000—
2012000—
2011000—
2010000—
2009110$80,000
2008000—
2007000—
2006000—
2005000—
2004000—
2003000—
2002000—
2001000—
2000000—

Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.

The homes

68% of Bazine households own their home

Half of Bazine’s homes were built before 1965.

Owners and renters
Own 68%Rent 32%

Kansas: 67% own.

1965
typical home built · KS 1976
$1,588
median property tax bill · KS $2,798
9%
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.

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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. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits 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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