Home prices in Detroit run 56% below the national median: $185,000 versus $420,000. Relative to the $38,000 median household income here, the price-to-income ratio comes out to 4.9x.
At a 2.44% effective rate, Detroit property taxes add $376 to the monthly payment on the median home, $4,514 a year in total.
Unlike the nine no-income-tax states, Michigan taxes wage income. Worth running your actual take-home pay against the $1,418/month payment here before locking in a target price.
Day-to-day expenses in Detroit track at 83 against the national 100 baseline, below average once you look past the mortgage payment itself.
Detroit's median home price runs 34% lower than nearby Grand Rapids: $280,000 there versus $185,000 here.