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Housing in Colfax

A typical Colfax home is worth roughly $103,000

Typical home value
$103K
MO $268K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$920
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$845
MO $1,948

What kind of housing town is Colfax?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.3 years of income

Less than across Missouri (3.8 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$315,000
Typical Colfax home $103K

That covers a typical Colfax home, with $212K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$610
Loan $510Tax $70Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $920 a month here, $310 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Colfax’s typical property tax (0.82% 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 $920

Renters already here pay a median of $785, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$690
1 bedroom$710
2 bedrooms$920
3 bedrooms$1,210
4 bedrooms$1,230
17%
of households rent · MO 32%
39
renter households
$785
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

83% of Colfax households own their home

Half of Colfax’s homes were built before 1971.

Owners and renters
Own 83%Rent 17%

Missouri: 68% own.

1971
typical home built · MO 1978
$845
median property tax bill · MO $1,948
0.82%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · MO 0.85%

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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