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Housing in Tappen

A typical Tappen home is worth roughly $64,000

Typical home value
$64K
ND $292K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$880
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$363
ND $2,468

What kind of housing town is Tappen?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Tappen

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You could afford about
$296,000
Typical Tappen home $64K

That covers a typical Tappen home, with $232K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$390
Loan $320Tax $50Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $880 a month here, $490 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 $880

Renters already here pay a median of $640, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$760
1 bedroom$770
2 bedrooms$880
3 bedrooms$1,230
4 bedrooms$1,470
31%
of households rent · ND 37%
12
renter households
$640
median rent paid today · Census

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

69% of Tappen households own their home

Half of Tappen’s homes were built before 1967.

Owners and renters
Own 69%Rent 31%

North Dakota: 63% own.

1967
typical home built · ND 1982
$363
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.

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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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