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Housing in Fortuna

A typical Fortuna home is worth roughly $422,000

Typical home value
$422K
MO $268K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$920
a month, utilities in · HUD

What kind of housing town is Fortuna?

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

★ What stands out · The homes

100% of Fortuna households own their home

Half of Fortuna’s homes were built before 1974.

Owners and renters
Own 100%

Missouri: 68% own.

1974
typical home built · MO 1978

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

Affordability

What it takes to buy in Fortuna

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$279,000
Typical Fortuna home $422K

That’s $144K short of a typical Fortuna home.

The typical home, each month
$2,510
Loan $2,090Tax $300Insurance $120

A two-bedroom rents for about $920 a month here, $1,590 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 $920

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$690
1 bedroom$750
2 bedrooms$920
3 bedrooms$1,220
4 bedrooms$1,300
0%
of households rent · MO 32%

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