--- description: Find out how much space you'd be able to afford if you took your house-buying budget and moved it to a different city. title: See What Type of House You Can Afford in Every City image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [real estate](/tag/real-estate/) ## real estate Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # See What Type of House You Can Afford in Every City by [David Johnson](/author/dave-johnson/) ## David Johnson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 22, 2017 1:00 PM CUT by [David Johnson](/author/dave-johnson/) ## David Johnson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 22, 2017 1:00 PM CUT It’s a choice [many home buyers](http://time.com/money/4708374/cost-of-living-city-suburbs/ "undefined") face (from those buying their first home to those with saving for retirement in mind): the best location vs. the most space. Now, recent data from real estate website [Zillow](http://www.zillow.com "undefined") shows just how much space you’d be able to afford if you took your budget to a different city. Take Washington, D.C., where the median one-bedroom home costs $387,400\. For that price, you could get a four-bedroom home in Nashville, Tenn. or Raleigh, N.C., according to Zillow. Your money goes the farthest in Detroit, where $196,500 — [the median price of a U.S. home](https://www.zillow.com/home-values/ "undefined") in 2017 — would buy four four-bedroom homes. That same amount only buys a quarter of the median one-bedroom home in San Francisco — the [most expensive metro area](http://time.com/money/4703912/most-expensive-zip-code-in-every-state/ "undefined") tracked by Zillow. [_Click here for more articles_](http://time.com/money/topic/looking-forward/ "undefined") _from Time Inc.’s Looking Forward series._ Enter your details below to see how far your money goes in your location and up to 96 other metro areas across the U.S. **Methodology** The interactive is based on February 2017 data from Zillow, reflecting median home values for one, two, three and four-bedroom homes in 97 of the largest U.S. metro areas. [Zillow’s median home values](https://www.zillow.com/wikipages/What's-the-Zillow-Home-Value-Index/ "undefined") are based on [millions of home sales and other user-submitted data points](https://www.zillow.com/zestimate/ "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4782794/buy-home-budget-cities/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4782794/buy-home-budget-cities/"},"headline":"See What Type of House You Can Afford in Every City","datePublished":"2017-05-22T13:00:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:58:36.447Z","description":"Find out where you'll get the most for your money","url":"https://time.com/4782794/buy-home-budget-cities/","keywords":["real estate","U.S.","interactive studio"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"David Johnson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dave-johnson/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/real-estate/","name":"real estate"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4782794/buy-home-budget-cities/","name":"See What Type of House You Can Afford in Every City"}}]}] ```