Home prices in Yonkers run 14% above the national median: $480,000 versus $420,000. Relative to the $62,000 median household income here, the price-to-income ratio comes out to 7.7x.
At a 1.82% effective rate, Yonkers property taxes add $728 to the monthly payment on the median home, $8,736 a year in total.
Unlike the nine no-income-tax states, New York taxes wage income. Worth running your actual take-home pay against the $3,430/month payment here before locking in a target price.
Day-to-day expenses in Yonkers track at 148 against the national 100 baseline, above average once you look past the mortgage payment itself.
Yonkers's median home price runs 36% lower than nearby New York City: $750,000 there versus $480,000 here.