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Housing in Paris

A typical Paris home is worth roughly $208,000

Typical home value
$208K
KS $250K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,040
a month, utilities in · HUD

What kind of housing town is Paris?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The homes

97% of Paris households own their home

Half of Paris’s homes were built before 1979.

Owners and renters
Own 97%Rent 3%

Kansas: 67% own.

1979
typical home built · KS 1976

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

Affordability

A typical home costs 5.8 years of income

More than across Kansas (3.4 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$133,000
Typical Paris home $208K

That’s $75K short of a typical Paris home.

The typical home, each month
$1,310
Loan $1,030Tax $220Insurance $60

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,040 a month here, $270 less than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

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 $1,040

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$820
1 bedroom$910
2 bedrooms$1,040
3 bedrooms$1,370
4 bedrooms$1,600
3%
of households rent · KS 33%
8
renter households

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

Next door

Paris vs. its neighbors

Paris is the priciest of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Paris$208K*—$1,040$35,893
Mound City$132K+5%$1,030$63,542
Potosi$147K*—$1,030$61,481

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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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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