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Housing in Calypso

A typical Calypso home is worth roughly $99,000

Typical home value
$99K
NC $335K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,100
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$743
NC $1,896

What kind of housing town is Calypso?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Calypso

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You could afford about
$290,000
Typical Calypso home $99K

That covers a typical Calypso home, with $191K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$570
Loan $490Tax $50Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,100 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, the North Carolina typical property tax (0.66% 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

1 of Calypso’s houses are on the National Register

Half of Calypso’s homes were built before 1955.

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Owners and renters
Own 57%Rent 43%

North Carolina: 67% own.

1955
typical home built · NC 1991
$743
median property tax bill · NC $1,896
2%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes
Historic houses in Calypso

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,100

Renters already here pay a median of $645, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$830
1 bedroom$840
2 bedrooms$1,100
3 bedrooms$1,320
4 bedrooms$1,710
43%
of households rent · NC 33%
81
renter households
$645
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Duplin County, NC): 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. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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