How are mobile houses (or permanent houses) away from town connected to the electric and water/sewage grid?

Question

How much it cost to make such connections? For a single house? For a whole neighborhood or trailer park?

Answer 1

Most rural electric is on coop's and on a per unit basis they have the lowest cost energy, we pay $.11/Kw-hr and the closest city with a normal utility company pays $.13.  In Los Angelese they pay $.15 to $.35/ kW-hr.  So coop will allow you to pay for the lines over a 10 year period.

If you buy a house in a city, that $10,000 cited above is rolled into the cost of the house.  If you put in a whole neighborhood of manufactured homes, then the cost goes down.

Sometimes a few home owners will go together and drill a community well.  Wells can cost from $3000 to $20000.

Septic system technology has improved and they can cost from $5000 to $10000. Again, in a neighborhood in a city you have to pay the sewer company a tap fee or the water company a tap fee and that cost is typically just put into the cost of the house.

Telephone, cable, internet all the same, up front costs or paid over time to install.

Answer 2

It depends how far out they are - most rural houses end up using a septic tank and drill a water well.

Rural electric is the most expensive as you will have to pay to have the wires run from the nearest power pole location.  This can run in to the $10,000 range.  Just depends on how far they have to run cable.