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Housing in Scranton

A typical Scranton home is worth roughly $118,000

Typical home value
$118K
ND $292K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$930
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$918
ND $2,468

What kind of housing town is Scranton?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Scranton

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You could afford about
$296,000
Typical Scranton home $118K

That covers a typical Scranton home, with $179K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$710
Loan $580Tax $100Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $930 a month here, $220 more 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 $930

Renters already here pay a median of $779, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$800
1 bedroom$840
2 bedrooms$930
3 bedrooms$1,290
4 bedrooms$1,520
22%
of households rent · ND 37%
30
renter households
$779
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

78% of Scranton households own their home

Half of Scranton’s homes were built before 1960.

Owners and renters
Own 78%Rent 22%

North Dakota: 63% own.

1960
typical home built · ND 1982
$918
median property tax bill · ND $2,468
8%
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. 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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