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Housing in Custer

A typical Custer home is worth roughly $131,000

Typical home value
$131K
MI $266K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$970
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,310
MI $2,904

What kind of housing town is Custer?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Custer

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You could afford about
$271,000
Typical Custer home $131K

That covers a typical Custer home, with $140K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$830
Loan $650Tax $140Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $140 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Michigan typical property tax (1.25% 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 $970

Renters already here pay a median of $769, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$690
1 bedroom$770
2 bedrooms$970
3 bedrooms$1,300
4 bedrooms$1,300
15%
of households rent · MI 27%
15
renter households
$769
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

85% of Custer households own their home

Half of Custer’s homes were built before 1957.

Owners and renters
Own 85%Rent 15%

Michigan: 73% own.

1957
typical home built · MI 1972
$1,310
median property tax bill · MI $2,904

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. 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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