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Housing in Balmorhea

A typical Balmorhea home is worth roughly $54,000

Typical home value
$54K
TX $299K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,020
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$988
TX $4,232

What kind of housing town is Balmorhea?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Balmorhea

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You could afford about
$281,000
Typical Balmorhea home $54K

That covers a typical Balmorhea home, with $226K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$350
Loan $270Tax $70Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,020 a month here, $670 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Texas typical property tax (1.49% 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 $1,020

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$800
1 bedroom$900
2 bedrooms$1,020
3 bedrooms$1,330
4 bedrooms$1,510
47%
of households rent · TX 37%
57
renter households

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

The homes

53% of Balmorhea households own their home

Half of Balmorhea’s homes were built before 1969.

Owners and renters
Own 53%Rent 47%

Texas: 63% own.

1969
typical home built · TX 1992
$988
median property tax bill · TX $4,232
9%
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.

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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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