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Housing in Marceline

A typical Marceline home is worth roughly $116,000

Typical home value
$116K
MO $268K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$890
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$821
MO $1,948

What kind of housing town is Marceline?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.6 years of income

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

You could afford about
$300,000
Typical Marceline home $116K

That covers a typical Marceline home, with $184K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$680
Loan $580Tax $70Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $890 a month here, $210 more than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

How Marceline ranks on affordability →

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Marceline’s typical property tax (0.71% 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 $642, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$660
1 bedroom$680
2 bedrooms$890
3 bedrooms$1,090
4 bedrooms$1,200
24%
of households rent · MO 32%
177
renter households
55%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · MO 46%
14%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom
$642
median rent paid today · Census

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

76% of Marceline households own their home

Half of Marceline’s homes were built before 1966.

Owners and renters
Own 76%Rent 24%

Missouri: 68% own.

1966
typical home built · MO 1978
$821
median property tax bill · MO $1,948
0.71%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · MO 0.85%

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

Next door

Marceline vs. its neighbors

Marceline is the least expensive of 4 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Marceline$116K*—$890$74,872
Bucklin$141K+2.8%$890$54,545
Yellow Creek—+15.2%†$900$83,250
Clark$234K*—$890$106,250
Brookfield$136K+11.5%$900$57,835

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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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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