A typical Scranton home is worth roughly $76,000
Builders were permitted 1 new home in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Scranton?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 1.3 years of income
Less than across Kansas (3.4 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Scranton home, with $121K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,070 a month here, $560 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Scranton’s typical property tax (1.80% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,070
Renters already here pay a median of $768, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Topeka, KS MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
1 new home permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 1 new home in Scranton in 2025. Over the past 10 years, Scranton has permitted 5 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Scranton's population fell by 57 even though 5 new homes were permitted. Homes are holding fewer people: households are getting smaller, or more homes are used part of the year. Across Kansas: 1.1 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 1 | 1 | 0 | $342,000 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $342,000 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $150,000 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $150,000 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $225,000 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $60,000 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $75,000 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $65,000 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $160,000 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $160,000 |
| 2009 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $251,000 |
| 2008 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $251,000 |
| 2007 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $377,000 |
| 2006 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $330,000 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $100,000 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $100,000 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $100,000 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $100,000 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $100,000 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
87% of Scranton households own their home
Half of Scranton’s homes were built before 1984.
Kansas: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Neighbors talk housing
What Scranton buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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.