Average home sale price · 1975 Verified
$42,600in April 1975 — about $268,929 in today's money.
- Price in 1975$42,600
- Same money today$268,929
- Actual price now · January 2026$514,600
- Change since 1975+1108%
Priced in working time
- Work to buy in 1975 · the federal minimum wage was $2.10/hour20,286 hours
- Work to buy today · at $7.25/hour (2026)70,979 hours
Observed price divided by the observed wage for the same year — nothing here is back-cast. See the minimum wage record →
Price history
Record & method
This is an observed price. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded it in April 1975; we have not adjusted the figure.
- Source
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED. Public domain.
- Series
- ASPUS
- Observed
- April 1975
- Coverage
- January 1963 – January 2026
- Adjusted by
- CPIAUCNS · 52.9 → 333.952 (June 2026)
- License
- Public domain