$425,000 is the median home price across Rhode Island, set against a $71,200 median household income for a 6.0x price-to-income ratio, 1% above the national median price.
Rhode Island's 1.63% average property tax rate runs above the 1.1% national average, working out to $577/month on the median home here.
Unlike the nine no-income-tax states, Rhode Island taxes wage income at 3.75%–5.99%. Worth running your actual take-home pay against the $2,981/month payment here before locking in a target price.
Rhode Island's cost of living index is 107, above the 100 national baseline. That's on top of the housing numbers above, not instead of them.
Rhode Island's median home price runs 1% higher than Maryland: $420,000 there versus $425,000 here.