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Housing in Washburn

A typical Washburn home is worth roughly $139,000

Typical home value
$139K
TX $299K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,050
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$568
TX $4,232

What kind of housing town is Washburn?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Washburn

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You could afford about
$281,000
Typical Washburn home $139K

That covers a typical Washburn home, with $141K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$900
Loan $690Tax $170Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,050 a month here, $150 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 $1,050

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$740
1 bedroom$860
2 bedrooms$1,050
3 bedrooms$1,440
4 bedrooms$1,670
14%
of households rent · TX 37%
14
renter households

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

87% of Washburn households own their home

Half of Washburn’s homes were built before 1965.

Owners and renters
Own 87%Rent 14%

Texas: 63% own.

1965
typical home built · TX 1992
$568
median property tax bill · TX $4,232

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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