63701
Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, MO · Cape Girardeau, MO-IL metro · population 39,345
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$676 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,531 +4%
- $233,197$242,728 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,270 +24%
- $195,458$242,728 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- 63701$1,274
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in zip 63701 rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in zip 63701 rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in zip 63701 runs $733/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $766 in Oct 2023.
That is $1,664 a month against $931 rent: a $1,274 mortgage payment, plus $130 property tax and $260 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — zip 63701
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,664
- Renting$931
- Mortgage only$1,274
Property tax · $130/mo 0.64% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Cape Girardeau County, MO
Insurance & upkeep · $260/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Cape Girardeau, MO — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.
Asking rent — 63701
Against the Cape Girardeau, MO-IL metro and the national benchmark.
- 63701$931
- Cape Girardeau$1,013
- United States$1,932
Typical home value — 63701
Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 63701$242,728
- Cape Girardeau$225,700
- United States$366,157
Within 20 miles
| Miles sorted ascending, activate to sort descending | Zip activate to sort by Zip | City activate to sort by City | Population activate to sort by Population | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.8 | 63703 | Cape Girardeau | 8,201 | $1,100 | $116,041 |
| 8.2 | 63755 | Jackson | 27,629 | $1,175 | $269,702 |
| 8.6 | 62957 | McClure | 640 | — | $76,249 |
| 11.7 | 63780 | Scott City | 6,243 | — | $174,561 |
| 12.1 | 62990 | Thebes | 973 | — | $114,713 |
| 12.3 | 63739 | Burfordville | 508 | — | $197,132 |
| 12.5 | 63740 | Chaffee | 5,165 | — | $145,801 |
| 13.8 | 63785 | Whitewater | 1,282 | — | $272,855 |
| 14.9 | 62952 | Jonesboro | 2,852 | — | $133,699 |
| 15.7 | 63769 | Oak Ridge | 1,358 | — | $273,572 |
| 16.1 | 63766 | Millersville | 1,715 | — | $253,795 |
| 17.2 | 62988 | Tamms | 1,149 | — | $100,969 |
| 17.9 | 63732 | Altenburg | 863 | — | $245,984 |
| 17.9 | 63736 | Benton | 3,755 | — | $200,237 |
| 19.4 | 63771 | Oran | 2,365 | — | $163,319 |
| 19.8 | 63783 | Uniontown | 60 | — | $268,494 |
Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.