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Rent, home values and prices in Huntington

Renters in Huntington pay a median $900 a month for two bedrooms. Size matters: one bedroom is $685, three bedrooms $1,030, so going from the smallest to the largest of the three adds $4,140 a year.

The median value of owner-occupied homes in the metro is $154,700. Against a median household income of $60,078, the ratio is 2.6× — one of the gentler home-price-to-income ratios in the country.

BEA's Regional Price Parity for the metro is 88.4, where 100 is the US average. In plain terms, the full basket of goods, services and housing costs 11.6% less than average, so $100,000 here buys roughly what $113,094 would at average US prices.

Huntington: the pre-tax income for each grade

For two bedrooms, $81,000 is where Huntington turns Comfortable. Below that, $41,000 marks the start of Okay and $19,000 the start of Tight; under $19,000 the score reads Stretched. Rent at the Comfortable line is 13% of gross pay.

Reaching Royal takes $239,000 — 3.0× the Comfortable line — because the last points come slowly once rent is already a small share.

Nothing here is a separate rule of thumb; plug any of these incomes into the calculator with two bedrooms and Huntington shows the matching grade.

Scores at $50K, $75K, $100K and $150K in Huntington

At $75,000, a one-bedroom scores 67 (Comfortable), a two-bedroom 63 (Okay) and a three-bedroom 61 (Okay). The $4,140 a year between the smallest and largest home is what moves the grade.

Read down the two-bedroom column and the first Comfortable row is $100,000, consistent with the $81,000 line above.

How Huntington ranks among 387 metros

On price level Huntington is 325th of 387 (1 = most expensive); on two-bedroom rent it is 357th, and on median home value 374th. Rent and overall prices don't line up exactly, with prices in the least expensive quarter and rent among the least expensive tenth.

For a sense of scale, the metros just above and below it on two-bedroom rent are Lawton, OK ($903) and Morristown, TN ($900).

Huntington vs. the rest of West Virginia

How Huntington stacks up against its state: $900 for a two-bedroom against West Virginia's $896, $154,700 for the median home against $162,600, and a price level of 88.4 against 89.5. Because the metro spans West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio, the comparison uses West Virginia, where Huntington itself is.

On statewide medians, a two-bedroom budget reaches Comfortable at $85,000 — above Huntington's $81,000 line.

The nearest matches in West Virginia, judged on rent and price parity together, are Charleston, WV, Wheeling, WV-OH, and Parkersburg-Vienna, WV.

Huntington's median income on the scale

A household at the Huntington median income of $60,078 would see a two-bedroom score of 57 — Okay — with rent at 18% of income. Put differently, Huntington's typical household is $20,922 below the $81,000 it takes to read Comfortable on two bedrooms. Statewide, the West Virginia median household ($59,608) grades Okay on the state's own medians. Keep in mind a household median often combines two incomes.

These are pre-tax estimates from public statistics, not financial advice.