Housing in Osage

A typical Osage home is worth roughly $97,000

Typical home value

$97K

MO $268K

Estimate

2-bedroom rent

$890

a month, utilities in · HUD

Median tax bill

$624

MO $1,948

What kind of housing town is Osage?

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

Your money goes further64% below the Missouri typical home.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.9 years of income

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

You could afford about

$210,000

Typical Osage home $97K

That covers a typical Osage home, with $113K to spare.

The typical home, each month

$560

Loan $480Tax $50Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $890 a month here, $330 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Osage’s typical property tax (0.64% 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 $907.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$670

1 bedroom$680

2 bedrooms$890

3 bedrooms$1,170

4 bedrooms$1,460

22%

of households rent · MO 32%

117

renter households

35%

of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · MO 46%

21%

of the median income, for a two-bedroom

$907

median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

78% of Osage households own their home

Half of Osage’s homes were built before 1972.

Owners and renters

Own 78%Rent 22%

Missouri: 68% own.

1972

typical home built · MO 1978

$624

median property tax bill · MO $1,948

0.64%

of a home’s value, a year in tax · MO 0.85%

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

Next door

Osage vs. its neighbors

The towns that share a border with Osage. Tap one to see its housing page.

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Town	Typical value	1-yr change	2-bed rent	Median income
Osage	$97K*	—	$890	$51,625
Lone Oak	—	+6%†	$890	$96,250

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.