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Housing in Sunburst

A typical Sunburst home is worth roughly $140,000

No new homes were permitted in 2014.

Typical home value
$140K
MT $472K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,490
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,385
MT $2,693

What kind of housing town is Sunburst?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Sunburst

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$292,000
Typical Sunburst home $140K

That covers a typical Sunburst home, with $152K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$820
Loan $690Tax $80Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,490 a month here, $670 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Montana typical property tax (0.72% 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 $1,490

Renters already here pay a median of $1,094, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,110
1 bedroom$1,270
2 bedrooms$1,490
3 bedrooms$2,060
4 bedrooms$2,070
14%
of households rent · MT 31%
14
renter households
$1,094
median rent paid today · Census

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

New construction

No new homes permitted in 2014

No permits for new homes were issued in Sunburst in 2014 or in any year since 2000.

Single-family
01 200020052010
0
new homes permitted in 2014
0
homes in the past 10 years
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Sunburst's permit office didn't report to the Census in 2014, so the 2014 figures are Census estimates.

Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.

The homes

86% of Sunburst households own their home

Half of Sunburst’s homes were built before 1963.

Owners and renters
Own 86%Rent 14%

Montana: 69% own.

1963
typical home built · MT 1981
$1,385
median property tax bill · MT $2,693
7%
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.

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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. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits 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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