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Housing in Jane

A typical Jane home is worth roughly $214,000

Builders were permitted 2 new homes in 2025.

Typical home value
$214K
MO $268K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$890
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,047
MO $1,948

What kind of housing town is Jane?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Jane

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You could afford about
$279,000
Typical Jane home $214K

That covers a typical Jane home, with $64K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,270
Loan $1,060Tax $150Insurance $60

A two-bedroom rents for about $890 a month here, $380 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 $890

Renters already here pay a median of $880.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$670
1 bedroom$680
2 bedrooms$890
3 bedrooms$1,230
4 bedrooms$1,490
20%
of households rent · MO 32%
14
renter households
$880
median rent paid today · Census

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

New construction

2 new homes permitted in 2025

Builders were permitted 2 new homes in Jane in 2025, all single-family houses. Over the past 10 years, Jane has permitted 23 homes in all.

Single-family2+ homes per building
0246 201620202025
2
new homes permitted in 2025
2
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
23
homes in the past 10 years
Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
2026 (Jan–Aug)220$468,000
2025220$683,000
2024440$504,000
2023633$678,000
2022633$500,000
2021550$1.2 million
2020000—
2019000—
2018000—
2017000—
2016000—

Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.

The homes

80% of Jane households own their home

Half of Jane’s homes were built before 1988.

Owners and renters
Own 80%Rent 20%

Missouri: 68% own.

1988
typical home built · MO 1978
$1,047
median property tax bill · MO $1,948
9%
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.

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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. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits 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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