Home prices in Covington run 55% below the national median: $188,000 versus $420,000. Relative to the $50,000 median household income here, the price-to-income ratio comes out to 3.8x.
At a 0.9% effective rate, Covington property taxes add $141 to the monthly payment on the median home, $1,692 a year in total.
Unlike the nine no-income-tax states, Kentucky taxes wage income. Worth running your actual take-home pay against the $1,184/month payment here before locking in a target price.
Day-to-day expenses in Covington track at 94 against the national 100 baseline, below average once you look past the mortgage payment itself.
Covington's median home price runs 23% lower than nearby Louisville: $245,000 there versus $188,000 here.