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Housing in Gargatha

A typical Gargatha home is worth roughly $292,000

Typical home value
$292K
VA $415K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$970
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,586
VA $2,790

What kind of housing town is Gargatha?

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

★ What stands out · The homes

100% of Gargatha households own their home

Half of Gargatha’s homes were built before 2005.

Owners and renters
Own 100%

Virginia: 67% own.

2005
typical home built · VA 1984
$1,586
median property tax bill · VA $2,790
0.54%
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.

Affordability

A typical home costs 4.5 years of income

About the same as across Virginia. Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$262,000
Typical Gargatha home $292K

That’s $29K short of a typical Gargatha home.

The typical home, each month
$1,660
Loan $1,440Tax $130Insurance $90

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $690 less than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Gargatha’s typical property tax (0.54% 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 $970

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$680
1 bedroom$790
2 bedrooms$970
3 bedrooms$1,260
4 bedrooms$1,430
0%
of households rent · VA 33%

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

Next door

Gargatha vs. its neighbors

The towns that share a border with Gargatha. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Gargatha$292K*—$970$64,375
Nelsonia$136K*—$1,060$88,685

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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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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