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Housing in Gordon

A typical Gordon home is worth roughly $123,000

Typical home value
$123K
PA $255K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$970
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,938
PA $3,311

What kind of housing town is Gordon?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.3 years of income

Less than across Pennsylvania (3.3 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$331,000
Typical Gordon home $123K

That covers a typical Gordon home, with $208K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$800
Loan $610Tax $160Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $170 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Gordon’s typical property tax (1.58% 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

72% of Gordon households own their home

Half of Gordon’s homes were built before 1938.

Owners and renters
Own 72%Rent 29%

Pennsylvania: 69% own.

1938
typical home built · PA 1965
$1,938
median property tax bill · PA $3,311
1.58%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · PA 1.30%

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

Renters already here pay a median of $775, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$690
1 bedroom$740
2 bedrooms$970
3 bedrooms$1,270
4 bedrooms$1,330
29%
of households rent · PA 31%
96
renter households
$775
median rent paid today · Census

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