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Housing in Sycamore

A typical Sycamore home is worth roughly $125,000

Typical home value
$125K
KS $250K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$990
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,857
KS $2,798

What kind of housing town is Sycamore?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Sycamore

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You could afford about
$273,000
Typical Sycamore home $125K

That covers a typical Sycamore home, with $148K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$790
Loan $620Tax $130Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $990 a month here, $200 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.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $990

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$700
1 bedroom$770
2 bedrooms$990
3 bedrooms$1,290
4 bedrooms$1,600
13%
of households rent · KS 33%
21
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Wichita, KS HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

The homes

87% of Sycamore households own their home

Half of Sycamore’s homes were built before 1958.

Owners and renters
Own 87%Rent 13%

Kansas: 67% own.

1958
typical home built · KS 1976
$1,857
median property tax bill · KS $2,798
19%
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.

Next door

Sycamore vs. its neighbors

The towns that share a border with Sycamore. Tap one to see its housing page.

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TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Sycamore$125K*—$990$70,625
Chelsea—+9.6%†$1,010$98,125

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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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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