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Housing in Tira

A typical Tira home is worth roughly $130,000

Home prices around Tira have risen about 59% over the past 5 years.

Typical home value
$130K
▲ 6.5% in a year · TX $299K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,120
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$685
TX $4,232

What kind of housing town is Tira?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Tira

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You could afford about
$281,000
Typical Tira home $130K

That covers a typical Tira home, with $151K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$840
Loan $640Tax $160Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,120 a month here, $280 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.

Price trend

Home prices up 59% in 5 years

The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Tira rose 59% over the past 5 years, faster than across Texas (43%). Last year prices rose 6.5%.

Tira areaTexas
0%+50%+100%+150%+200%+250%200020052010201520202025
+6.5%
past year
+59%
past 5 years
+120%
past 10 years

Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Tira, 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 $1,120

Renters already here pay a median of $838, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$910
1 bedroom$960
2 bedrooms$1,120
3 bedrooms$1,480
4 bedrooms$1,480
12%
of households rent · TX 37%
13
renter households
$838
median rent paid today · Census

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

88% of Tira households own their home

Half of Tira’s homes were built before 1989.

Owners and renters
Own 88%Rent 12%

Texas: 63% own.

1989
typical home built · TX 1992
$685
median property tax bill · TX $4,232
3%
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. 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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