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Housing in Distant

A typical Distant home is worth roughly $127,000

Typical home value
$127K
PA $290K
Estimate
Median rent
$770
a month · Census
Median tax bill
$1,454
PA $3,311

What kind of housing town is Distant?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 2.1 years of income

Less than across Pennsylvania (3.7 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$226,000
Typical Distant home $127K

That covers a typical Distant home, with $99K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$790
Loan $630Tax $120Insurance $40
Where your budget reaches nearby

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Distant’s typical property tax (1.14% 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

63% of Distant households own their home

Half of Distant’s homes were built before 1950.

Owners and renters
Own 63%Rent 37%

Pennsylvania: 69% own.

1950
typical home built · PA 1965
$1,454
median property tax bill · PA $3,311
1.14%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · PA 1.30%
2%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

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

Renting

Renters pay a median $770 a month

HUD doesn’t publish rents for this area.

37%
of households rent · PA 31%
80
renter households
$770
median rent paid today · Census

Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

Next door

Distant vs. its neighbors

Distant is the priciest of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentNew homes 2025Median income
Distant$127K*———$60,438
Mahoning$124K*—$9701$53,056
Porter$121K*—$9703$70,156

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. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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