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Housing in Iron Gate

A typical Iron Gate home is worth roughly $85,000

Typical home value
$85K
VA $415K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,000
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$754
VA $2,790

What kind of housing town is Iron Gate?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Iron Gate

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You could afford about
$371,000
Typical Iron Gate home $85K

That covers a typical Iron Gate home, with $286K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$490
Loan $420Tax $50Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,000 a month here, $510 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Virginia typical property tax (0.73% 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

92% of Iron Gate households own their home

Half of Iron Gate’s homes were built before 1961.

Owners and renters
Own 92%Rent 8%

Virginia: 67% own.

1961
typical home built · VA 1984
$754
median property tax bill · VA $2,790
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.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,000

Renters already here pay a median of $715, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$870
1 bedroom$870
2 bedrooms$1,000
3 bedrooms$1,410
4 bedrooms$1,520
8%
of households rent · VA 33%
11
renter households
$715
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Alleghany County-Clifton Forge city-Covington city, VA HUD Nonmet): 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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