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Housing in Bennett

A typical Bennett home is worth roughly $107,000

Typical home value
$107K
KS $250K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$910
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$2,230
KS $2,798

What kind of housing town is Bennett?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.8 years of income

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

You could afford about
$200,000
Typical Bennett home $107K

That covers a typical Bennett home, with $94K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$750
Loan $530Tax $190Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $910 a month here, $160 more than owning.

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

The homes

77% of Bennett households own their home

Half of Bennett’s homes were built before 1950.

Owners and renters
Own 77%Rent 23%

Kansas: 67% own.

1950
typical home built · KS 1976
$2,230
median property tax bill · KS $2,798
2.09%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · KS 1.29%

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 $910

Renters already here pay a median of $843.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$670
1 bedroom$690
2 bedrooms$910
3 bedrooms$1,270
4 bedrooms$1,530
23%
of households rent · KS 33%
50
renter households
$843
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Wichita, KS HUD Metro FMR Area): 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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