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Housing in Artesia

A typical Artesia home is worth roughly $102,000

No new homes were permitted in 2022.

Typical home value
$102K
MS $198K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$880
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$583
MS $1,215

What kind of housing town is Artesia?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Artesia

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You could afford about
$224,000
Typical Artesia home $102K

That covers a typical Artesia home, with $122K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$590
Loan $500Tax $60Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $880 a month here, $290 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Mississippi typical property tax (0.72% 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 $880

Renters already here pay a median of $397, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$740
1 bedroom$750
2 bedrooms$880
3 bedrooms$1,200
4 bedrooms$1,270
49%
of households rent · MS 30%
75
renter households
$397
median rent paid today · Census

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

New construction

No new homes permitted in 2022

No permits for new homes were issued in Artesia in 2022 or in any year since 2003.

Single-family
01 20032005201020152020
0
new homes permitted in 2022
0
homes in the past 10 years
Homes vs. people, 2010–2020
Residents−136
New homes+0

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Artesia's population fell by 136 and no new homes were permitted.

Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
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Artesia's permit office didn't report to the Census in 2022, so the 2022 figures are Census estimates.

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

The homes

52% of Artesia households own their home

Half of Artesia’s homes were built before 1977.

Owners and renters
Own 52%Rent 49%

Mississippi: 70% own.

1977
typical home built · MS 1986
$583
median property tax bill · MS $1,215

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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