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Housing in Polvadera

A typical Polvadera home is worth roughly $124,000

Typical home value
$124K
NM $318K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$970
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$587
NM $1,731

What kind of housing town is Polvadera?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 4.6 years of income

Less than across New Mexico (5 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$112,000
Typical Polvadera home $124K

That’s $12K short of a typical Polvadera home.

The typical home, each month
$700
Loan $610Tax $50Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $270 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Polvadera’s typical property tax (0.47% 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 $970

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$720
1 bedroom$890
2 bedrooms$970
3 bedrooms$1,350
4 bedrooms$1,570
17%
of households rent · NM 30%
35
renter households
100%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · NM 50%
43%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom

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

The homes

83% of Polvadera households own their home

Half of Polvadera’s homes were built before 1983.

Owners and renters
Own 83%Rent 17%

New Mexico: 70% own.

1983
typical home built · NM 1985
$587
median property tax bill · NM $1,731
0.47%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · NM 0.70%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.

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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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