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Housing in Fairgrove

A typical Fairgrove home is worth roughly $79,000

Typical home value
$79K
MI $266K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,060
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,438
MI $2,904

What kind of housing town is Fairgrove?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.8 years of income

Less than across Michigan (3.7 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$148,000
Typical Fairgrove home $79K

That covers a typical Fairgrove home, with $70K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$530
Loan $390Tax $120Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,060 a month here, $530 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Fairgrove’s typical property tax (1.83% 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

92% of Fairgrove households own their home

Half of Fairgrove’s homes were built before 1959.

Owners and renters
Own 92%Rent 8%

Michigan: 73% own.

1959
typical home built · MI 1972
$1,438
median property tax bill · MI $2,904
1.83%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · MI 1.25%
5%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

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 $1,060

Renters already here pay a median of $842, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$730
1 bedroom$860
2 bedrooms$1,060
3 bedrooms$1,400
4 bedrooms$1,550
8%
of households rent · MI 27%
17
renter households
$842
median rent paid today · Census

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

On the market in Fairgrove

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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