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Housing in Jackson

A typical Jackson home is worth roughly $124,000

Typical home value
$124K
MO $268K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$940
a month, utilities in · HUD

What kind of housing town is Jackson?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.1 years of income

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

You could afford about
$451,000
Typical Jackson home $124K

That covers a typical Jackson home, with $327K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$740
Loan $610Tax $90Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $940 a month here, $200 more than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

How Jackson ranks on affordability →

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.

The homes

96% of Jackson households own their home

Half of Jackson’s homes were built before 1969.

Owners and renters
Own 96%Rent 4%

Missouri: 68% own.

1969
typical home built · MO 1978
2%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

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

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $940

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$700
1 bedroom$720
2 bedrooms$940
3 bedrooms$1,210
4 bedrooms$1,380
4%
of households rent · MO 32%
6
renter households

How Jackson ranks on rent that’s easy to afford →

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

Next door

Jackson vs. its neighbors

Jackson is the 2nd least expensive of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Jackson$124K*—$940$114,583
Union$168K*—$920$54,000
Jamesport$121K+13.3%$940$65,294
Sampsel—−2.5%†$900—

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.

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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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