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Housing in Lefors

A typical Lefors home is worth roughly $35,000

Typical home value
$35K
TX $299K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,110
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$469
TX $4,232

What kind of housing town is Lefors?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 0.7 years of income

Less than across Texas (3.8 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$190,000
Typical Lefors home $35K

That covers a typical Lefors home, with $156K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$220
Loan $170Tax $40Insurance $10

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,110 a month here, $890 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Lefors’s typical property tax (1.36% 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 $1,110

Renters already here pay a median of $892, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$840
1 bedroom$850
2 bedrooms$1,110
3 bedrooms$1,330
4 bedrooms$1,470
14%
of households rent · TX 37%
19
renter households
$892
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Gray 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

86% of Lefors households own their home

Half of Lefors’s homes were built before 1964.

Owners and renters
Own 86%Rent 14%

Texas: 63% own.

1964
typical home built · TX 1992
$469
median property tax bill · TX $4,232
1.36%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · TX 1.49%
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.

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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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