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Housing in Perry

A typical Perry home is worth roughly $70,000

Typical home value
$70K
SC $306K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$970
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$281
SC $1,251

What kind of housing town is Perry?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Perry

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You could afford about
$285,000
Typical Perry home $70K

That covers a typical Perry home, with $215K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$400
Loan $350Tax $30Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $570 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the South Carolina typical property tax (0.48% 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 $970

Renters already here pay a median of $975.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$730
1 bedroom$850
2 bedrooms$970
3 bedrooms$1,250
4 bedrooms$1,510
21%
of households rent · SC 28%
17
renter households
$975
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

The homes

79% of Perry households own their home

Half of Perry’s homes were built before 1991.

Owners and renters
Own 79%Rent 21%

South Carolina: 72% own.

1991
typical home built · SC 1992
$281
median property tax bill · SC $1,251

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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