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Housing in Howard

A typical Howard home is worth roughly $53,000

Typical home value
$53K
KS $250K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$880
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,506
KS $2,798

What kind of housing town is Howard?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 0.8 years of income

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

You could afford about
$202,000
Typical Howard home $53K

That covers a typical Howard home, with $149K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$400
Loan $260Tax $130Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $880 a month here, $480 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Howard’s typical property tax (2.86% 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 $880

Renters already here pay a median of $514, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$640
1 bedroom$670
2 bedrooms$880
3 bedrooms$1,130
4 bedrooms$1,280
25%
of households rent · KS 33%
60
renter households
$514
median rent paid today · Census

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

75% of Howard households own their home

Half of Howard’s homes were built before 1959.

Owners and renters
Own 75%Rent 25%

Kansas: 67% own.

1959
typical home built · KS 1976
$1,506
median property tax bill · KS $2,798
2.86%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · KS 1.29%
7%
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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