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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock New« Staff Writer ' Rappahannock has the most expensive real estate in the Rappahannock-Rapidan Planning District (PD-9), according to information gathered by the Piedmont and Fauquier Board of Realtors and distributed by the planning district.
The average price of residential real estate sold in 1991 was $201,700, more than double the 1988 average of just under $100,000. Next highest was Fauquier at $183,000 up from $133,000 in 1988. The average for Culpeper was $118,700, for Madison $88,900 and for Orange $103,700. ( Other data provided by PD-9 $hows information on housing gathered during the 1990 Census. ; According to this information the county has 2,964 housing units and <!,496 households. This leaves nearly 16 percent of the housing units unoccupied. That figure is higher in this county than others in the planning district, and may reflect the fairly large number of weekend homes in the county. More than 90 percent of the housing units in Culpeper, Fauquier and Madison counties have households. Orange County is most like Rappahannock in this respect. Nearly 88 percent of the housing Jinits hold households. ! Rappahannock has the fewest people per household: 2.65. This compares to 2.79 in Culpeper, 2.89 in Fauquier, 2.83 in Madison, and 2.67 in Orange.
Owners occupy most of the housing units in the county. This is true of all the counties in the planning district. However, 27.8 percent of the households are renters, lower than Culpeper’s 32.7 percent, but higher than Fauquier at 26.7 percent, Orange at 23.7 percent or Madison at 22.9 percent.
The Census also provided information on sources of water and methods of sewage disposal for housing units. Only 4.9 percent of Rappahannock houses are served by public or private water systems, primarily the water system serving Washington. A somewhat higher 5.9 percent are on public sewer: those served by
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