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Housing in Matheny

A typical Matheny home is worth roughly $160,000

Typical home value
$160K
WV $180K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$870
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,590
WV $865

What kind of housing town is Matheny?

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

★ What stands out · The homes

100% of Matheny households own their home

Half of Matheny’s homes were built before 1987.

Owners and renters
Own 100%

West Virginia: 75% own.

1987
typical home built · WV 1976
$1,590
median property tax bill · WV $865
0.99%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · WV 0.53%

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

Affordability

What it takes to buy in Matheny

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$231,000
Typical Matheny home $160K

That covers a typical Matheny home, with $71K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$970
Loan $790Tax $130Insurance $50

A two-bedroom rents for about $870 a month here, $100 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Matheny’s typical property tax (0.99% 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 $870

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$670
1 bedroom$750
2 bedrooms$870
3 bedrooms$1,170
4 bedrooms$1,180
0%
of households rent · WV 25%

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

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