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Housing in Farmer

A typical Farmer home is worth roughly $49,000

Typical home value
$49K
KS $250K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$890
a month, utilities in · HUD

What kind of housing town is Farmer?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Farmer

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You could afford about
$273,000
Typical Farmer home $49K

That covers a typical Farmer home, with $225K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$310
Loan $240Tax $50Insurance $10

A two-bedroom rents for about $890 a month here, $580 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.

The homes

89% of Farmer households own their home

Half of Farmer’s homes were built before 1947.

Owners and renters
Own 89%Rent 11%

Kansas: 67% own.

1947
typical home built · KS 1976
10%
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 $890

Renters already here pay a median of $817.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$650
1 bedroom$690
2 bedrooms$890
3 bedrooms$1,210
4 bedrooms$1,310
11%
of households rent · KS 33%
10
renter households
$817
median rent paid today · Census

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