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Home Prices

Lower median owner-occupied home value scores higher.

Scale0-100

Higher values rank better for this score.

How It's Calculated

The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.

Scoring Method

How the ranking is built

Home Prices rewards places with lower typical owner-occupied home values.

  1. 1

    Median home value is converted to a 0-100 score where lower home value scores higher.

  2. 2

    The normalization is population-weighted inverse percentile rank over the full observed housing dataset.

Technical details
Score TypeMaster Score

Read from the current master score table for this criterion.

Ranking BasisSingle Score

The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Home Prices.

No source details available for this score.

What This Score Means

Home Prices rewards places with lower typical owner-occupied home values.

Statistics Feeding This Score

  • Median home value

    ACS median value for owner-occupied housing units.

    Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year

Source Data

Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-YearCensus ACS 5-year estimates for housing, income, population, occupation, education, and race/ethnicity inputs at place, county, or CBSA geography depending on the score.

Known Limits

  • ACS values are place-level estimates, not live listings or neighborhood-level prices.
  • Scores compare places against the current scored dataset using percentile-rank normalization, so the full observed ordering matters without p5/p95 clipping.
  • Affordability does not include taxes, insurance, utilities, commuting costs, or local wage differences beyond median household income.

Top 10 Locations

Ranked by Home Prices.

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