Mapped: The Most Affordable U.S. Cities to Buy a Home in 2025

Visual Capitalist ^ | 05/30/25 | Bruno Venditti

[stanne]

Oh. Okay

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Some of those “affordable home” places have astronomical property taxes, which is why the price is “affordable.”

[Theoria]

City shoot’em ups, full of stop and stabs. That’s why they’re affordable.

[PAR35]

Prices are probably lower in Jackson MS than in many of these cities, but income is even lower.

[Secret Agent Man]

They are cities conservatives dont want to live in due to democrats and crime. The crime alone makes it undesirable regardless of home cost.

[dfwgator]

There’s a reason they are “affordable”.

[BipolarBob]

Exactly.

[dfwgator]

That’s one of the big problems, the old “Fixer Upper” doesn’t exist anymore in a safe neighborhood. That was the primary way young people could get their first home and build equity. Now to live in a somewhat desirable neighborhood, it takes at least a few hundred thousand dollars.

[Secret Agent Man]

Good point.

[Salvavida]

Hard pass.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The gradient runs from black to white.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yep, who wants to live in a bad neighborhood just to have a cheap house?

[Georgia Girl 2]

The cheapest homes are in the least desirable cities.

I don’t get Atlanta. We live in Metro Atlanta and there is not much inventory and prices are not cheap. If you have dreamed of living in a third world foreign land without leaving the states Atlanta is your Huckleberry. 😆

[sjmjax]

Top of their list - Bottom of my list.

[Bobbyvotes]

Not a single city in that list from Florida. I guess I am living beyond my means 😂

[griffin]

looks like a list of dem destruction.

[griffin]

should do a red/blue map overlay on this map.

[Wilderness Conservative]

Interesting to see Las Vegas on the list and so high. I thought Vegas was hot.

[wjcsux]

Indianapolis, IN and Tucson, AZ would be the only ones on the list that I would consider. Albuquerque didn’t make the cut.