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Housing in Earl

A typical Earl home is worth roughly $163,000

Typical home value
$163K
NC $335K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$940
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$935
NC $1,896

What kind of housing town is Earl?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Earl

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You could afford about
$290,000
Typical Earl home $163K

That covers a typical Earl home, with $127K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$950
Loan $810Tax $90Insurance $50

A two-bedroom rents for about $940 a month here, $10 less 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.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $940

Renters already here pay a median of $944.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$770
1 bedroom$780
2 bedrooms$940
3 bedrooms$1,310
4 bedrooms$1,340
20%
of households rent · NC 33%
22
renter households
$944
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

80% of Earl households own their home

Half of Earl’s homes were built before 1982.

Owners and renters
Own 80%Rent 20%

North Carolina: 67% own.

1982
typical home built · NC 1991
$935
median property tax bill · NC $1,896

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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