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Housing in Union

A typical Union home is worth roughly $128,000

Typical home value
$128K
KS $250K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$880
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,925
KS $2,798

What kind of housing town is Union?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.7 years of income

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

You could afford about
$266,000
Typical Union home $128K

That covers a typical Union home, with $138K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$830
Loan $630Tax $160Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $880 a month here, $50 more than owning.

How Union ranks on affordability →

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Union’s typical property tax (1.51% 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

83% of Union households own their home

Half of Union’s homes were built before 1953.

Owners and renters
Own 83%Rent 17%

Kansas: 67% own.

1953
typical home built · KS 1976
$1,925
median property tax bill · KS $2,798
1.51%
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 $708, 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$1,170
4 bedrooms$1,280
17%
of households rent · KS 33%
22
renter households
$708
median rent paid today · Census

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

Next door

Union vs. its neighbors

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

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Union$128K*—$880$74,375
Mitchell—+12.6%†$900—

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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