Housing in Piney

A typical Piney home is worth roughly $124,000

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Typical home value

$124K

MO $268K

Estimate

2-bedroom rent

$940

a month, utilities in · HUD

Median tax bill

$735

MO $1,948

What kind of housing town is Piney?

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

Your money goes further54% below the Missouri typical home.Low tax bills#20 of 254 in MO for the lowest property tax bills.Rent is cheap#22 in MO for the cheapest rent.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 2.6 years of income

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

You could afford about

$191,000

Typical Piney home $124K

That covers a typical Piney home, with $67K to spare.

The typical home, each month

$710

Loan $610Tax $60Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $940 a month here, $230 more than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

Cass$158K Lynch$151K Jackson$124K Morris$178K

How Piney ranks on affordability →

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Piney’s typical property tax (0.59% 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 $940

Renters already here pay a median of $671, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$650

1 bedroom$740

2 bedrooms$940

3 bedrooms$1,270

4 bedrooms$1,580

28%

of households rent · MO 32%

517

renter households

52%

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

24%

of the median income, for a two-bedroom

$671

median rent paid today · Census

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

72% of Piney households own their home

Half of Piney’s homes were built before 1975.

Owners and renters

Own 72%Rent 28%

Missouri: 68% own.

1975

typical home built · MO 1978

$735

median property tax bill · MO $1,948

0.59%

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

of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

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

Next door

Piney vs. its neighbors

Piney is the 2nd least expensive of 5 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Morris$178K Cass$158K Lynch$151K Piney$124K Jackson$124K

Compare more

Town	Typical value	1-yr change	2-bed rent	Median income
Piney	$124K*	—	$940	$47,462
Cass	$158K*	—	$920	$37,434
Lynch	$151K*	—	$970	$38,068
Jackson	$124K*	—	$890	$55,088
Morris	$178K*	+2.8%†	$970	$55,662

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.