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Housing in Hilltop

A typical Hilltop home is worth roughly $56,000

Typical home value
$56K
WV $180K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$930
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$439
WV $865

What kind of housing town is Hilltop?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Hilltop

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You could afford about
$246,000
Typical Hilltop home $56K

That covers a typical Hilltop home, with $190K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$320
Loan $280Tax $20Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $930 a month here, $610 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the West Virginia typical property tax (0.53% 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

67% of Hilltop households own their home

Half of Hilltop’s homes were built before 1946.

Owners and renters
Own 67%Rent 33%

West Virginia: 75% own.

1946
typical home built · WV 1976
$439
median property tax bill · WV $865

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 $930

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$640
1 bedroom$710
2 bedrooms$930
3 bedrooms$1,210
4 bedrooms$1,550
33%
of households rent · WV 25%

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Fayette County, WV 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.

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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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