I received a lot of positive feedback for a tool I posted here two months ago, so my friend and I added several features and updated it with data for every state. Attached are some screenshots generated with the tool. The listing price scale was calculated with 33rd percentile as the low end, and 66th percentile as the upper.

homesareexpensive.com

This tool shows *all* Zillow home listings, median price by county, and dynamically generated median boxes which make it easier to find affordable areas. There are 1.85 million listings, which were collected using a generous grant of free credits from hasdata.com on 11/11/2025. 

Posted by f33tpix

12 Comments

  1. madladhadsaddad on
  2. turb0_encapsulator on

    the craziest thing to me is how mountains have become as desirable as the coasts. the prices in rural areas of Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Montana are wild to me.

  3. TenaciousLilMonkey on

    Looks like West Virginia is the only state entirely in green

    And Rhode Island entirely in orange/red

  4. Why use the listing price? The sales price is far more informative, that and (via a very unscientific eyeball review of the two prices on Zillow) there can be a dramatic difference between the two with the sales price predominately lower than the listing price (at least for the moment).

  5. People talk shit about Ohio but the median home price in my city is $124k. I bought my house ten years ago for a little over half that. Even now there’s a ton of decent houses available for well under $100k