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Housing in Hanover

A typical Hanover home is worth roughly $110,000

No new homes were permitted in 2025.

Typical home value
$110K
KS $250K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$880
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,814
KS $2,798

What kind of housing town is Hanover?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.6 years of income

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

You could afford about
$240,000
Typical Hanover home $110K

That covers a typical Hanover home, with $130K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$730
Loan $550Tax $150Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $880 a month here, $150 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Hanover’s typical property tax (1.64% 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

87% of Hanover households own their home

Half of Hanover’s homes were built before 1955.

Owners and renters
Own 87%Rent 13%

Kansas: 67% own.

1955
typical home built · KS 1976
$1,814
median property tax bill · KS $2,798
1.64%
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 $880

Renters already here pay a median of $642, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$700
1 bedroom$700
2 bedrooms$880
3 bedrooms$1,160
4 bedrooms$1,320
13%
of households rent · KS 33%
28
renter households
$642
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Marshall 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 Hanover in 2025. The last year with any was 2014 (2 new homes).

Single-family
0123 200020052010201520202025
0
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
0
homes in the past 10 years
Homes vs. people, 2010–2020
Residents+8
New homes+9

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Hanover gained 8 residents while 9 new homes were permitted: about 0.9 new residents per new home. Building outpaced population growth, which usually means smaller households or homes used part of the year. 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—
2021000—
2020000—
2019000—
2018000—
2017000—
2016000—
2015000—
2014220$1 million
2013220$367,000
2012330$518,000
2011000—
2010220$320,000
2009110$250,000
2008110$153,000
2007220$306,000
2006000—
2005000—
2004220$259,000
2003110$100,000
2002000—
2001000—
2000000—

Hanover's permit office didn't report to the Census in 2025, so the 2025 figures are Census estimates.

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