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Housing in New Athens

A typical New Athens home is worth roughly $124,000

Typical home value
$124K
OH $249K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$980
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,699
OH $2,822

What kind of housing town is New Athens?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in New Athens

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You could afford about
$261,000
Typical New Athens home $124K

That covers a typical New Athens home, with $138K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$780
Loan $610Tax $140Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $980 a month here, $200 more than owning.

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 $980

Renters already here pay a median of $713, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$740
1 bedroom$760
2 bedrooms$980
3 bedrooms$1,290
4 bedrooms$1,310
15%
of households rent · OH 33%
18
renter households
$713
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

85% of New Athens households own their home

Half of New Athens’s homes were built before 1972.

Owners and renters
Own 85%Rent 15%

Ohio: 67% own.

1972
typical home built · OH 1970
$1,699
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.

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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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