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Housing in Carytown

A typical Carytown home is worth roughly $291,000

Home prices around Carytown have risen about 55% over the past 5 years.

Typical home value
$291K
▲ 5.3% in a year · MO $268K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$960
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,290
MO $1,948

What kind of housing town is Carytown?

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

★ What stands out · The homes

93% of Carytown households own their home

Half of Carytown’s homes were built before 2002.

Owners and renters
Own 93%Rent 7%

Missouri: 68% own.

2002
typical home built · MO 1978
$1,290
median property tax bill · MO $1,948

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

Price trend

Home prices up 55% in 5 years

The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Carytown rose 55% over the past 5 years, faster than across Missouri (51%). Last year prices rose 5.3%.

Carytown areaMissouri
0%+50%+100%+150%200020052010201520202025
+5.3%
past year
+55%
past 5 years
+93%
past 10 years

Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Carytown, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.

Affordability

What it takes to buy in Carytown

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$279,000
Typical Carytown home $291K

That’s $12K short of a typical Carytown home.

The typical home, each month
$1,730
Loan $1,440Tax $210Insurance $80

A two-bedroom rents for about $960 a month here, $770 less 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.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $960

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$770
1 bedroom$780
2 bedrooms$960
3 bedrooms$1,250
4 bedrooms$1,300
7%
of households rent · MO 32%
7
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Joplin, MO 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.

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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. 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.

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