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Housing in South Range

A typical South Range home is worth roughly $101,000

Typical home value
$101K
MI $266K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$970
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,594
MI $2,904

What kind of housing town is South Range?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in South Range

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You could afford about
$271,000
Typical South Range home $101K

That covers a typical South Range home, with $170K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$640
Loan $500Tax $110Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $330 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.

The homes

72% of South Range households own their home

Half of South Range’s homes were built before 1944.

Owners and renters
Own 72%Rent 28%

Michigan: 73% own.

1944
typical home built · MI 1972
$1,594
median property tax bill · MI $2,904
4%
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 $970

Renters already here pay a median of $817, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$790
1 bedroom$800
2 bedrooms$970
3 bedrooms$1,350
4 bedrooms$1,640
28%
of households rent · MI 27%
58
renter households
$817
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Houghton County, MI): 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. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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