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Housing in Ozark

A typical Ozark home is worth roughly $115,000

Typical home value
$115K
KS $250K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$880
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,650
KS $2,798

What kind of housing town is Ozark?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Ozark

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You could afford about
$273,000
Typical Ozark home $115K

That covers a typical Ozark home, with $159K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$730
Loan $570Tax $120Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $880 a month here, $150 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Kansas typical property tax (1.29% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $880

Renters already here pay a median of $578, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$650
1 bedroom$680
2 bedrooms$880
3 bedrooms$1,160
4 bedrooms$1,440
26%
of households rent · KS 33%
42
renter households
$578
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Allen County, KS): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

The homes

74% of Ozark households own their home

Half of Ozark’s homes were built before 1968.

Owners and renters
Own 74%Rent 26%

Kansas: 67% own.

1968
typical home built · KS 1976
$1,650
median property tax bill · KS $2,798
2%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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