A typical Butterfield home is worth roughly $98,000
Home prices around Butterfield have risen about 65% over the past 5 years. Builders were permitted 4 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Butterfield?
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What it takes to buy in Butterfield
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That covers a typical Butterfield home, with $180K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $900 a month here, $320 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Missouri typical property tax (0.85% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Home prices up 65% in 5 years
The federal house price index for the ZIP codes around Butterfield rose 65% over the past 5 years, faster than across Missouri (51%). Last year prices rose 8.7%.
Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Butterfield, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.
A two-bedroom rents for about $900
Renters already here pay a median of $794, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Barry County, MO): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
4 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 4 new homes in Butterfield in 2025, all in buildings with two or more homes. Over the past 10 years, Butterfield has permitted 10 homes in all.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 3 | 0 | 3 | $439,000 |
| 2025 | 4 | 0 | 4 | $560,000 |
| 2024 | 4 | 0 | 4 | $585,000 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 2 | $340,000 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
79% of Butterfield households own their home
Half of Butterfield’s homes were built before 1980.
Missouri: 68% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Neighbors talk housing
What Butterfield buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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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. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. 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.