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Housing in Cedar

A typical Cedar home is worth roughly $66,000

Typical home value
$66K
KS $250K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,170
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,299
KS $2,798

What kind of housing town is Cedar?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1 years of income

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

You could afford about
$230,000
Typical Cedar home $66K

That covers a typical Cedar home, with $165K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$450
Loan $330Tax $110Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,170 a month here, $720 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Cedar’s typical property tax (1.97% 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 $1,170

Renters already here pay a median of $561, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$860
1 bedroom$1,010
2 bedrooms$1,170
3 bedrooms$1,530
4 bedrooms$1,710
17%
of households rent · KS 33%
35
renter households
$561
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Phillips 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

83% of Cedar households own their home

Half of Cedar’s homes were built before 1968.

Owners and renters
Own 83%Rent 17%

Kansas: 67% own.

1968
typical home built · KS 1976
$1,299
median property tax bill · KS $2,798
1.97%
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.

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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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