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Housing in Fowlkes

A typical Fowlkes home is worth roughly $125,000

Home prices around Fowlkes have risen about 56% over the past 5 years.

Typical home value
$125K
▲ 9.2% in a year · TN $334K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$930
a month, utilities in · HUD

What kind of housing town is Fowlkes?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 4 years of income

Less than across Tennessee (4.8 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$128,000
Typical Fowlkes home $125K

That covers a typical Fowlkes home, with $3K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$710
Loan $620Tax $50Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $930 a month here, $220 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Tennessee typical property tax (0.50% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Price trend

Home prices up 56% in 5 years

The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Fowlkes rose 56% over the past 5 years, slower than across Tennessee (60%). Last year prices rose 9.2%.

Fowlkes areaTennessee
0%+50%+100%+150%+200%200020052010201520202025
+9.2%
past year
+56%
past 5 years
+83%
past 10 years

Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Fowlkes, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $930

Renters already here pay a median of $710, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$720
1 bedroom$780
2 bedrooms$930
3 bedrooms$1,220
4 bedrooms$1,220
45%
of households rent · TN 33%
116
renter households
$710
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

55% of Fowlkes households own their home

Half of Fowlkes’s homes were built before 1983.

Owners and renters
Own 55%Rent 45%

Tennessee: 67% own.

1983
typical home built · TN 1987

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. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. 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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