Housing Data by Town: Rent, Property Taxes, Home Values and Rankings

How Seayora’s housing pages for every city, town and community in every state and the District of Columbia work: where each figure comes from, including crime reported to police and ZIP codes, how to read a margin of error and a change over time, how the rankings are built, and why some pages are hidden from search.

Seayora publishes the US Census Bureau’s and HUD’s housing figures for every city, town, township, village and borough in every state and the District of Columbia, and for every unincorporated community of 1,000 people or more: what rent costs, who rents, what homes are worth, what owners pay in property taxes, how old the homes are and how they are heated, how far people commute, its ZIP codes, the crime its own police department reported to the FBI, how each place has changed since the previous survey period, and HUD’s Fair Market Rents. Each place has its own page at seayora.com/housing, with a page for each question below, in English, Spanish, French and Chinese (choose one with the language switch at the foot of any page, or in Settings → Appearance when signed in), and every page says the date its figures were last updated.

Start here

• Type a ZIP code, a city or town, a county or a state into the search box at the top of seayora.com/housing (it is on every housing page) and pick it from the list.
• Read the opening line: it gives the main figure with its margin of error and the survey years. The table under it sets the place beside its county, its state and the whole country.
• Open the page for the question you have — rent, rent by bedrooms, property taxes, home values, crime, commute, the age of the homes — or the page for one of its ZIP codes for a finer view.
• Compare: every page lists the nearest places and the places most like it, and each state ranks its places on nine figures.
• Check the source: every figure links to the official table that publishes it, and every page says when its figures were last updated.

What renters, landlords, owners and pros use it for

• Renters: see what rent really costs in a town and its ZIP codes, how much of their income renters there pay and how long people stay, before touring — then browse homes for rent on Seayora and save the ones you like.
• Landlords and property managers: price a rental against the median rent for its size in the town and ZIP code and against HUD’s Fair Market Rent for voucher holders, check the property taxes and the age of the homes, then list it, sign the lease and collect rent in Seayora.
• Owners and investors: compare home values, property taxes, growth and the share who rent across a county’s towns and ZIP codes, and look up who owns a property with the free owner lookup.
• Contractors and service pros: see how old the homes are and how they are heated in each town, where the federal lead-paint rules apply to most of the work, and get found by owners and renters nearby on Seayora.

The pages for each municipality

There is also a page for each county (each planning region in Connecticut) listing its places, one for each state, and state rankings of every place with a reliable estimate by median rent, median home value, median household income, property taxes, share of renters, rent burden, age of homes, rental vacancy rate and commute time (seayora.com/housing/<state>/rankings).

Every place’s page also lists its nearest places (measured between the Census Bureau’s internal point for each, across state lines) and the places in its state whose housing is most like its own, matched on rent, home value, income, the share who rent, the age of the homes, the share in apartment buildings and the commute.

Every ZIP code has a page of its own too (seayora.com/housing/<state>/zip/<ZIP code>), with the same Census figures for the ZIP code, how it compares with the town most of it lies in, its county and its state, its rank among the county’s ZIP codes, HUD’s Small Area Fair Market Rent and its nearest ZIP codes. Every county page lists its ZIP codes and, where enough of its police departments reported, its combined crime figures. The search box at the top of every page finds any ZIP code, city, town, county or state.

Where the figures come from

• The American Community Survey 5-year estimates: the Census Bureau’s survey of about 3.5 million addresses a year, pooled across five years so that even a small town has an estimate. The survey years are printed on every page.
• The same survey for the earlier five years that do not overlap (2015–2019 against 2020–2024, as the Census Bureau recommends), for how rent, home values, income, taxes, population and housing have changed.
• HUD’s Fair Market Rents and income limits for the HUD area the place is in, and the Small Area Fair Market Rent for each of its ZIP codes where HUD publishes one.
• The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index (CPI-U), to say whether a dollar figure rose faster or slower than prices.
• The Census Bureau’s Gazetteer, for each place’s land area and location, and its 2020 block files, for which county a place is in and whether it lies inside a town or township.
• The Census Bureau’s ZIP Code Tabulation Areas: each ZIP code that covers a place, with the share of its land inside the place and its own residents, rent, home value and income.
• The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program (Crime Data Explorer): the violent and property crimes the place’s own police department reported for each of the last three years it reported in full, with the rate per 100,000 residents and the state and national rates.
• Every page links to the Census Bureau’s own table for that municipality on data.census.gov, and lists the API variables that reproduce each figure.

Reading a figure

• Every estimate is printed with its margin of error at 90% confidence: “$2,938 (±$129)” means the Census Bureau is 90% confident the true figure is between $2,809 and $3,067.
• A page says a town is higher or lower than its county or state only when the difference passes the Census Bureau’s significance test. Otherwise it says the two are not measurably different.
• Rankings within a county use the estimates alone. Where margins of error overlap, neighboring ranks may not truly differ, and the page says so.
• A median the Census Bureau caps is printed the way the Census Bureau prints it — “$2,000,000 or more” — never as a number.
• Gross rent is the rent households report paying plus the utilities and fuels they pay separately. It is not the asking rent for an apartment listed today.
• Home value is the owner’s own estimate, not a sale price or an assessment.
• A change over time compares the earlier and later survey periods with the same significance test. Dollar figures are compared after raising the earlier one by the rise in the CPI-U, because the Census Bureau publishes each period in its own year’s dollars.
• In a state rankings page, places at the same published figure — including a capped one such as “$10,000 or more” in taxes — share a rank, because their order is not known.
• A township, or a New York or Vermont town, includes the villages and communities inside it, so its figures include theirs; places inside a township are ranked only against places like them.
• An unincorporated community (a census-designated place) has no municipal government of its own; its page says so and names the town or county it lies in.
• Real estate taxes are what homeowners report paying in a year. The share of home value they make up is a rough guide built from two medians, not the tax rate a town sets.
• Crime figures are the offenses a police department knew of and reported to the FBI, for the area it polices. A year is shown only when all twelve months were reported, a town is shown only when exactly one department is matched to it, and places are never ranked by crime, because the FBI asks that its figures not be used that way.

Why some pages are missing or hidden from search

A page is built only where the Census Bureau publishes an estimate for that municipality. Where it publishes one that is too uncertain to rely on — a margin of error so wide that the coefficient of variation is above 30%, or a figure about too few homes — the page is still shown, with its margin, but asks search engines not to list it. A place’s main page is listed once at least 3 of its topic pages are. States are offered to search engines a few at a time, starting nearest New York; every page can be read from the day its state is published.

What it is not

• Not an appraisal, a rent determination or a market rent for a particular home.
• Not legal advice. Where a page mentions a law — the federal lead-paint disclosure for homes built before 1978, for example — it names the law and links to it.
• Not Seayora’s own data. Seayora reproduces the agencies’ published figures and does not adjust them.

This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.

Frequently asked questions

How current are the figures?

They are the newest 5-year estimates the Census Bureau has released, which describe the five survey years printed on each page, and HUD’s current fiscal-year Fair Market Rents and income limits. They are reloaded when a new release comes out.

Why does a page say “not measurably different”?

Because the two estimates’ margins of error overlap enough that the Census Bureau’s significance test cannot tell them apart. Saying one is higher would not be supported by the data.

Why do some places in a ranking share a rank?

Because the Census Bureau publishes their figure only as a bound — “$3,500 or more”, “$10,000 or more” — or as the same number. Their order among themselves is not known, so they are shown as tied.

Why is the median rent lower than what apartments are listed for?

The Census Bureau asks every renting household what it pays, including people who have stayed in the same apartment for years. Listed apartments are only the vacant ones, at today’s prices.

Can I check a number myself?

Yes. Every page links to the Census Bureau’s table for that municipality and lists the API variables that return each figure; the Census Bureau’s API needs a free key.

Can I read the pages in another language?

Yes. Choose Spanish, French or Chinese with the language switch at the foot of the page (or in Settings → Appearance when signed in) and every sentence, label and table on the page is drawn in that language, with the figures unchanged. Place names stay as the Census Bureau writes them.

Does a connected assistant use these figures?

The pages are public and readable by search engines and AI assistants. Seayora’s own assistant tools answer from a property’s own records instead.

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