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Housing in Keene

A typical Keene home is worth roughly $115,000

Typical home value
$115K
KY $233K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,180
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$683
KY $1,544

What kind of housing town is Keene?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Keene

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You could afford about
$254,000
Typical Keene home $115K

That covers a typical Keene home, with $139K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$680
Loan $570Tax $70Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,180 a month here, $500 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Kentucky typical property tax (0.75% 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

1 of Keene’s houses are on the National Register

Half of Keene’s homes were built before 1967.

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Owners and renters
Own 90%Rent 11%

Kentucky: 68% own.

1967
typical home built · KY 1982
$683
median property tax bill · KY $1,544
Historic houses in Keene

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,180

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$820
1 bedroom$1,000
2 bedrooms$1,180
3 bedrooms$1,610
4 bedrooms$1,790
11%
of households rent · KY 32%
6
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Lexington-Fayette, KY MSA): 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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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. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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