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Housing in Keener

A typical Keener home is worth roughly $139,000

Home prices around Keener have risen about 60% over the past 5 years.

Typical home value
$139K
▲ 1.9% in a year · NC $335K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$930
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,184
NC $1,896

What kind of housing town is Keener?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Keener

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You could afford about
$290,000
Typical Keener home $139K

That covers a typical Keener home, with $151K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$810
Loan $690Tax $80Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $930 a month here, $120 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.

Price trend

Home prices up 60% in 5 years

The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Keener rose 60% over the past 5 years, about the same as across North Carolina. Last year prices rose 1.9%.

Keener areaNorth Carolina
0%+50%+100%+150%+200%200020052010201520202025
+1.9%
past year
+60%
past 5 years
+84%
past 10 years

Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Keener, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $930

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$660
1 bedroom$810
2 bedrooms$930
3 bedrooms$1,110
4 bedrooms$1,300
47%
of households rent · NC 33%
82
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Sampson 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

53% of Keener households own their home

Half of Keener’s homes were built before 1992.

Owners and renters
Own 53%Rent 47%

North Carolina: 67% own.

1992
typical home built · NC 1991
$1,184
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. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. 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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