Fifth place: Detroit
A cozy, well-kept brick home in Detroit for just $115,000.
Median home price: $83,000
Median family income: $55,900
Affordability score: 91.3%
Detroit's auto industry may be rolling down the long road back to recovery, but the area's housing market is lagging The automakers will have to boost production and hiring before home inventories will shrink and thereby raise prices.
That gives working people who with fairly good wages their pick of many houses on the market.
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Last updated February 23 2011: 3:17 PM ET
