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Housing in Crystal

A typical Crystal home is worth roughly $89,000

Typical home value
$89K
NM $318K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,050
a month, utilities in · HUD

What kind of housing town is Crystal?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Crystal

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You could afford about
$256,000
Typical Crystal home $89K

That covers a typical Crystal home, with $167K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$520
Loan $440Tax $50Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,050 a month here, $530 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the New Mexico typical property tax (0.70% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

90% of Crystal households own their home

Half of Crystal’s homes were built before 1987.

Owners and renters
Own 90%Rent 10%

New Mexico: 70% own.

1987
typical home built · NM 1985
9%
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.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,050

Renters already here pay a median of $483, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$760
1 bedroom$800
2 bedrooms$1,050
3 bedrooms$1,410
4 bedrooms$1,480
10%
of households rent · NM 30%
8
renter households
$483
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Farmington, NM MSA): 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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