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Housing in Howard

A typical Howard home is worth roughly $110,000

Typical home value
$110K
OH $249K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,390
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,528
OH $2,822

What kind of housing town is Howard?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Howard

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You could afford about
$261,000
Typical Howard home $110K

That covers a typical Howard home, with $152K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$700
Loan $540Tax $120Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,390 a month here, $690 more than owning.

How Howard ranks on affordability →

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.

The homes

86% of Howard households own their home

Half of Howard’s homes were built before 1938.

Owners and renters
Own 86%Rent 14%

Ohio: 67% own.

1938
typical home built · OH 1970
$1,528
median property tax bill · OH $2,822

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 $1,390

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,060
1 bedroom$1,110
2 bedrooms$1,390
3 bedrooms$1,820
4 bedrooms$1,840
14%
of households rent · OH 33%
11
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Knox County, OH): 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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