{"id":45,"date":"2026-10-10T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/randyodell-com\/2026\/10\/10\/homes-in-highly-rated-school-zones-cost-35-more-than-the-average-u-s-home-but-the-premium-is-much-smaller-in-some-parts-of-the-country\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:00:00","slug":"homes-in-highly-rated-school-zones-cost-35-more-than-the-average-u-s-home-but-the-premium-is-much-smaller-in-some-parts-of-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/10\/homes-in-highly-rated-school-zones-cost-35-more-than-the-average-u-s-home-but-the-premium-is-much-smaller-in-some-parts-of-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Homes in Highly Rated School Zones Cost 35% More Than the Average U.S. Home&#8211;But the Premium Is Much Smaller in Some Parts of the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>The typical U.S. home in a highly rated school zone costs $580,000, 35% more than the overall median of $430,000. Buyers need an income of $159,157 to afford these homes, compared to $117,995 for typical homes. Only 13% of listings in top school zones are affordable to median earners. Price premiums vary by metro, with Philadelphia showing the highest premium (93.5%) and Little Rock the lowest (-5%). In expensive California metros, homes in top school zones consume up to 99% of median income.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/homes-in-highly-rated-school-zones-cost-35-more-than-the-average-us-homebut-the-premium-is-much-smaller-in-some-parts-of-the-country-302867106.html\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The typical U.S. home in a highly rated school zone costs $580,000, 35% more than the overall median of $430,000. Buyers need an income of $159,157 to afford these homes, compared to $117,995 for typical homes. Only 13% of listings in top school zones are affordable to median earners. Price premiums vary by metro, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}