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Housing in Davis

A typical Davis home is worth roughly $95,000

Typical home value
$95K
MO $268K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,030
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$802
MO $1,948

What kind of housing town is Davis?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.7 years of income

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

You could afford about
$220,000
Typical Davis home $95K

That covers a typical Davis home, with $125K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$560
Loan $470Tax $70Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,030 a month here, $470 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Davis’s 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 $1,030

Renters already here pay a median of $663, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$810
1 bedroom$900
2 bedrooms$1,030
3 bedrooms$1,350
4 bedrooms$1,570
22%
of households rent · MO 32%
93
renter households
41%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · MO 46%
22%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom
$663
median rent paid today · Census

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.

The homes

78% of Davis households own their home

Half of Davis’s homes were built before 1961.

Owners and renters
Own 78%Rent 22%

Missouri: 68% own.

1961
typical home built · MO 1978
$802
median property tax bill · MO $1,948
0.85%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · MO 0.85%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.

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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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