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Housing in Maceo

A typical Maceo home is worth about $187,000

Down 4.9% in a year, 20% below the Kentucky typical home.

Typical home value
$187K
▼ 4.9% in a year · KY $233K
Zillow
Median sale price
$90K
March 2026 · Redfin
Homes sold
1
in March
2-bedroom rent
$1,020
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,307
KY $1,544

Only 1 sale in March 2026: in a market this size, monthly medians swing a lot, so the typical value is the steadier guide.

What kind of housing town is Maceo?

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

★ What stands out · Price trend

Up 11.5% in five years

Slower than Kentucky (25.2%).

MaceoKentucky
$100K$125K$150K$175K$200K$225K$250K20182020202220242026
Show as a table
JanuaryMaceoKentucky
2017$104,000$131,000
2018$124,000$138,000
2019$134,000$146,000
2020$144,000$155,000
2021$168,000$173,000
2022$173,000$191,000
2023$187,000$207,000
2024$192,000$216,000
2025$196,000$229,000
2026$190,000$233,000
August 2026$187,000$233,000
Then & now

A typical Maceo home worth $105K in September 2016 is worth about $187K today.

+$82K
−4.9%
past year
+11.5%
past 5 years
+78.5%
since 2016

Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.

Affordability

What it takes to buy in Maceo

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$254,000
Typical Maceo home $187K

That covers a typical Maceo home, with $68K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,100
Loan $920Tax $120Insurance $50

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,020 a month here, $80 less 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.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,020

Renters already here pay a median of $957.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$770
1 bedroom$780
2 bedrooms$1,020
3 bedrooms$1,350
4 bedrooms$1,350
24%
of households rent · KY 32%
43
renter households
$957
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

76% of Maceo households own their home

Half of Maceo’s homes were built before 1957.

Owners and renters
Own 76%Rent 24%

Kentucky: 68% own.

1957
typical home built · KY 1982
$1,307
median property tax bill · KY $1,544

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

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center, March 2026. 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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