Here’s What You Need To Earn To Buy A Home In Travis County

AUSTIN, TX - Median home prices in over 300 counties, including in Travis County, are not affordable for average wage earners, according to a new report from ATTOM Data. Over the past year, median home prices in Travis County grew and home affordability dropped.

The report, which looked at home affordability for the first quarter of 2018, analyzed 446 counties and found that median home prices were not affordable for average wage earners in 304 counties or in 68 percent of the counties.

In Travis County, the median sales price for a home in the first quarter of 2018 was $332,000, according to ATTOM. Compared to a year ago, the median home price in Travis County grew 10 percent, according to the report.

According to ATTOM, the annual income needed to buy a median price home in Travis County is $1o1,247. An average wage earner was not qualified to buy a home in Travis County. According to the report, based on average weekly wages from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an average wage earner in Travis County has an annual income of $63,310.

Travis County had a home affordability index of 83 and was less affordable for average wage earners than its historic affordability average. Travis County’s affordability index remained the same when compared to the previous year.

ATTOM collected data from publicly recorded sales deeds and from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The affordability index is based on the percentage of average wages needed to make monthly house payments on a median-priced home with a 30-year fixed rate mortgage and a 3-percent down payment, including property taxes, home insurance and mortgage insurance. (Read the full methodology here.)

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