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Housing in Big Bend

A typical Big Bend home is worth roughly $341,000

Typical home value
$341K
ND $292K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$910
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$2,625
ND $2,468

What kind of housing town is Big Bend?

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

★ What stands out · The homes

94% of Big Bend households own their home

Half of Big Bend’s homes were built before 1982.

Owners and renters
Own 94%Rent 6%

North Dakota: 63% own.

1982
typical home built · ND 1982
$2,625
median property tax bill · ND $2,468

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

Affordability

What it takes to buy in Big Bend

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$296,000
Typical Big Bend home $341K

That’s $45K short of a typical Big Bend home.

The typical home, each month
$2,070
Loan $1,690Tax $280Insurance $100

A two-bedroom rents for about $910 a month here, $1,160 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the North Dakota typical property tax (0.99% 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 $910

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$710
1 bedroom$710
2 bedrooms$910
3 bedrooms$1,190
4 bedrooms$1,540
6%
of households rent · ND 37%
5
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Ransom County, ND): 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. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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