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Housing in Butlertown

A typical Butlertown home is worth roughly $210,000

Typical home value
$210K
MD $428K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,240
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,721
MD $4,093

What kind of housing town is Butlertown?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 2.9 years of income

Less than across Maryland (4.1 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$287,000
Typical Butlertown home $210K

That covers a typical Butlertown home, with $78K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,240
Loan $1,040Tax $140Insurance $60

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,240 a month here, $0 less than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Butlertown’s typical property tax (0.82% 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

95% of Butlertown households own their home

Half of Butlertown’s homes were built before 1996.

Owners and renters
Own 95%Rent 5%

Maryland: 68% own.

1996
typical home built · MD 1979
$1,721
median property tax bill · MD $4,093
0.82%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · MD 0.97%

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 $1,240

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,020
1 bedroom$1,100
2 bedrooms$1,240
3 bedrooms$1,610
4 bedrooms$2,000
5%
of households rent · MD 32%
11
renter households

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

Next door

Butlertown vs. its neighbors

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

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Butlertown$210K*—$1,240$72,991
Worton$382K+4.4%$1,240$90,982

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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