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Almost identical to the size of the average student debt: $27,000. Over 10 years, a typical term for a student loan, the average debt of $28,200 will require a monthly payment of $284 a month at the current federal loan rate of 3.86% According to Experian, the average new car loan today has a monthly payment of $471. Getting into college is hard enough.
However, the amount of debt varied regionally. In Ohio, the per capita average was just over $20,000, while the average Californian had well over $50,000 in mortgage debt. Residents of Arizona, Illinois and New York were all close to the U.S. average.