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Housing in Oregon

A typical Oregon home is worth roughly $122,000

Typical home value
$122K
MO $268K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$890
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,048
MO $1,948

What kind of housing town is Oregon?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.8 years of income

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

You could afford about
$266,000
Typical Oregon home $122K

That covers a typical Oregon home, with $144K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$730
Loan $610Tax $90Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $890 a month here, $160 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Oregon’s typical property tax (0.86% 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 $534, 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$1,110
4 bedrooms$1,370
24%
of households rent · MO 32%
66
renter households
$534
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Holt 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 Oregon households own their home

Half of Oregon’s homes were built before 1970.

Owners and renters
Own 76%Rent 24%

Missouri: 68% own.

1970
typical home built · MO 1978
$1,048
median property tax bill · MO $1,948
0.86%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · MO 0.85%

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. 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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