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Housing in Lykens

A typical Lykens home is worth roughly $181,000

Typical home value
$181K
OH $249K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$970
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,730
OH $2,822

What kind of housing town is Lykens?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.4 years of income

Less than across Ohio (3.5 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$487,000
Typical Lykens home $181K

That covers a typical Lykens home, with $306K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,090
Loan $900Tax $140Insurance $50

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $120 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, Lykens’s typical property tax (0.96% 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

89% of Lykens households own their home

Half of Lykens’s homes were built before 1938.

Owners and renters
Own 89%Rent 11%

Ohio: 67% own.

1938
typical home built · OH 1970
$1,730
median property tax bill · OH $2,822
0.96%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · OH 1.31%

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 $970

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$760
1 bedroom$780
2 bedrooms$970
3 bedrooms$1,230
4 bedrooms$1,310
11%
of households rent · OH 33%

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

Next door

Lykens vs. its neighbors

Lykens is the 2nd priciest of 4 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Lykens$181K*—$970$125,625
Chatfield$210K*—$1,000$49,167
Holmes$144K*+13.5%†$970$70,768
Bloom$123K*—$970$78,226

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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