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Housing in Brown

A typical Brown home is worth roughly $300,000

Typical home value
$300K
OH $249K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,080
a month, utilities in · HUD

What kind of housing town is Brown?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Brown

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You could afford about
$261,000
Typical Brown home $300K

That’s $39K short of a typical Brown home.

The typical home, each month
$1,900
Loan $1,490Tax $330Insurance $90

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,080 a month here, $820 less than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Ohio typical property tax (1.31% 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 $1,080

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$820
1 bedroom$860
2 bedrooms$1,080
3 bedrooms$1,340
4 bedrooms$1,470
22%
of households rent · OH 33%
42
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Hocking County, OH HUD Metro FMR Area): 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 Brown households own their home

Half of Brown’s homes were built before 1992.

Owners and renters
Own 78%Rent 22%

Ohio: 67% own.

1992
typical home built · OH 1970

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Next door

Brown vs. its neighbors

Brown is the priciest of 4 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Brown$300K*—$1,080$47,981
Starr$87K*—$1,040—
Waterloo$144K*—$1,130$67,188
Knox$119K*+2.4%†$1,030$63,487

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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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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