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Housing in Alden

A typical Alden home is worth roughly $128,000

Typical home value
$128K
MN $351K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,190
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,921
MN $3,357

What kind of housing town is Alden?

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 Minnesota (3.9 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$262,000
Typical Alden home $128K

That covers a typical Alden home, with $134K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$830
Loan $640Tax $160Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,190 a month here, $360 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Alden’s typical property tax (1.50% 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 $1,190

Renters already here pay a median of $1,042, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$820
1 bedroom$910
2 bedrooms$1,190
3 bedrooms$1,570
4 bedrooms$1,750
17%
of households rent · MN 28%
45
renter households
$1,042
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

83% of Alden households own their home

Half of Alden’s homes were built before 1957.

Owners and renters
Own 83%Rent 17%

Minnesota: 72% own.

1957
typical home built · MN 1979
$1,921
median property tax bill · MN $3,357
1.50%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · MN 1.02%

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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