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Housing in Delight

A typical Delight home is worth roughly $172,000

Typical home value
$172K
NE $281K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$960
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$2,028
NE $3,549

What kind of housing town is Delight?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 2.9 years of income

Less than across Nebraska (3.7 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$225,000
Typical Delight home $172K

That covers a typical Delight home, with $53K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,070
Loan $850Tax $170Insurance $50

A two-bedroom rents for about $960 a month here, $110 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Delight’s typical property tax (1.18% 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 $960

Renters already here pay a median of $633, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$670
1 bedroom$730
2 bedrooms$960
3 bedrooms$1,340
4 bedrooms$1,470
27%
of households rent · NE 34%
87
renter households
$633
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

73% of Delight households own their home

Half of Delight’s homes were built before 1972.

Owners and renters
Own 73%Rent 27%

Nebraska: 67% own.

1972
typical home built · NE 1975
$2,028
median property tax bill · NE $3,549
1.18%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · NE 1.49%
2%
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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