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Housing in Walnut

A typical Walnut home is worth roughly $85,000

Typical home value
$85K
KS $250K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$890
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$642
KS $2,798

What kind of housing town is Walnut?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.5 years of income

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

You could afford about
$230,000
Typical Walnut home $85K

That covers a typical Walnut home, with $145K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$500
Loan $420Tax $50Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $890 a month here, $390 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Walnut’s typical property tax (0.76% 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

93% of Walnut households own their home

Half of Walnut’s homes were built before 1967.

Owners and renters
Own 93%Rent 7%

Kansas: 67% own.

1967
typical home built · KS 1976
$642
median property tax bill · KS $2,798
0.76%
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 $890

Renters already here pay a median of $438, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$670
1 bedroom$680
2 bedrooms$890
3 bedrooms$1,180
4 bedrooms$1,410
7%
of households rent · KS 33%
11
renter households
$438
median rent paid today · Census

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

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Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.

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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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