A typical Gary home is worth roughly $51,000
What kind of housing town is Gary?
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A typical home costs 1.2 years of income
Less than across West Virginia (3 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Gary home, with $125K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $870 a month here, $590 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Gary’s typical property tax (0.39% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
96% of Gary households own their home
Half of Gary’s homes were built before 1938.
West Virginia: 75% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
A two-bedroom rents for about $870
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (McDowell County, WV): 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.