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Housing in Dante

A typical Dante home is worth roughly $81,000

Typical home value
$81K
VA $415K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,320
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$330
VA $2,790

What kind of housing town is Dante?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 2.4 years of income

Less than across Virginia (4.5 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$142,000
Typical Dante home $81K

That covers a typical Dante home, with $61K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$450
Loan $400Tax $30Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,320 a month here, $870 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Dante’s typical property tax (0.41% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

62% of Dante households own their home

Half of Dante’s homes were built before 1945.

Owners and renters
Own 62%Rent 38%

Virginia: 67% own.

1945
typical home built · VA 1984
$330
median property tax bill · VA $2,790
0.41%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · VA 0.73%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,320

Renters already here pay a median of $1,328.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,070
1 bedroom$1,070
2 bedrooms$1,320
3 bedrooms$1,620
4 bedrooms$1,970
38%
of households rent · VA 33%
59
renter households
$1,328
median rent paid today · Census

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

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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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