Kennett, MO · Updated Oct 2026

What a Kennett home costs each year

Property tax, water, trash and energy from public rates. Look up your address to make it yours, and see how to pay less.

Suggestions as you type come from Google; the lookup uses free public map services to find who serves it. Not stored unless you save your house.

Example · a Kennett house

$6,342a year · $528 a month

Starts at $21,280 of value before exemptions. Typical use.

A typical Kennett house costs about $6,300 a year: $1,230 property tax and charges, $980 water and sewer, $230 trash, $2,030 electricity and gas, $1,870 home insurance. Estimated from public rates, not anyone's actual bill.

Rates checked Oct 31, 2026. Insurance: what you enter, or a typical premium until you do. Sources are listed at the bottom.

Ways to pay less

Nothing here applies to every house automatically. These are worth checking:

Money dates

Utility bill due date5% is added to the schedule rates if a bill is not paid by the due date.

Who serves this house

Water: Kennett Board of Public Works; Residential water: the posted 7/14/2024 schedule (customer charge by meter size plus $.00273 per gallon); billed monthly. A capital improvement fee of $0.25 per additional 100 gallons applies up to 14,000 gallons.
Property tax: 5.79% of value; 2025 tax year, Dunklin County (Kennett 39 School District)
Electricity, gas, water, sewer: Kennett Board of Public Works; Kennett Board of Public Works, your city-owned utility company since 1941, provides the City of Kennett with electric, gas, water, sewer, and internet services.
Garbage: KBPW Sanitation; Each eligible residence will receive one 96-Gallon Black and Gold rollout cart for residential trash services.

Pay or manage your bills

KBPW rates and bill pay ↗

Your water

Source: Groundwater wells.
Violation: A chlorine monitoring violation in May 2024 is listed in the 2024 report.

Other MO cities

Springfield home costs Independence home costs St. Charles home costs Blue Springs home costs St. Peters home costs Liberty home costs Wildwood home costs Raytown home costs Grandview home costs Raymore home costs Belton home costs Webster Groves home costs Ozark home costs Rolla home costs Creve Coeur home costs Lake Saint Louis home costs Manchester home costs Ferguson home costs Clayton home costs Kirksville home costs Grain Valley home costs Jackson home costs Dardenne Prairie home costs Marshall home costs Festus home costs Fulton home costs West Plains home costs Crestwood home costs Bolivar home costs Town and Country home costs Mexico home costs Excelsior Springs home costs Smithville home costs Ellisville home costs Monett home costs Columbia home costs University City home costs Republic home costs Warrensburg home costs Sikeston home costs Troy home costs Maryville home costs Harrisonville home costs Warrenton home costs Oak Grove home costs Des Peres home costs Sunset Hills home costs Richmond Heights home costs Olivette home costs Brentwood home costs Park Hills home costs Nevada home costs Sullivan home costs Boonville home costs Cameron home costs Valley Park home costs Cottleville home costs Battlefield home costs Shrewsbury home costs Glendale home costs Odessa home costs Wright City home costs Trenton home costs St. Robert home costs Caruthersville home costs Parkville home costs Ladue home costs Perryville home costs Maplewood home costs Willard home costs Marshfield home costs Clinton home costs

How these numbers are made

Electric, water, sewer and gas: Kennett Board of Public Works rates page (water, sewer and gas schedule effective 7/14/2024; electric due 4/14/2025). KBPW's April 2026 announcement held electric, gas, wastewater and sanitation rates flat for 2026 and approved a 2% water increase; the rates page still shows only the 2024 water schedule, so the 2026 water figures are the 2024 schedule plus 2% (applied to the customer charge and per-gallon rate, not the capital improvement fee; the split of the increase is a modelling assumption).
Water: the $0.25 per 100 gallons capital improvement fee (up to 14,000 gallons) is added to the per-gallon rate; per-gallon rates were converted to CCF (x748). Sewer likewise.
Property tax: State Auditor 2025 levies for Kennett 39 School District, Independence Township (Dunklin County), Dunklin County library, ambulance, developmental disabilities board, Johnson grass and health department, plus the state 3 cents. The City of Kennett lists no property-tax levy.
Value: Census median value times Missouri 19 percent residential ratio; no homestead exemption modelled.
Gas: base rate plus 99.87 cents per ccf and the stated current $0.10 purchased gas adjustment, converted to therms with 1.037; electric fuel and purchase-power adjustments are not quantified by the board, so not included. Typical gas use is Missouri statewide residential deliveries per consumer (EIA, 2024: 85,348 MMcf over 1,461,770 consumers, about 58.4 Mcf a year) at 1.037 therms per ccf, averaged over 12 months, since KBPW publishes no typical-use figure. Insurance is the Missouri statewide average.
Nothing here is legal, tax or insurance advice.

Sources

How Kennett compares

A typical Kennett house against the 43 Missouri cities we cover, using the same default numbers as the total above.

Per year	Kennett	Median	Where it falls
Property tax rate	5.79%	5.64%	higher than 23 of the other 42 Missouri cities we cover
Water	$579	$680	lower than 27 of the other 42 Missouri cities we cover
Sewer and utility-bill fees	$397	$805	lower than 38 of the other 42 Missouri cities we cover
Trash	$227	$261	lower than 23 of the other 31 Missouri cities we cover
Electricity and gas	$2,034	$2,357	lower than 35 of the other 42 Missouri cities we cover
Home insurance	$1,872	$1,872	higher than 13 of the other 26 Missouri cities we cover
Total	$6,342	$8,070	lower than 36 of the other 42 Missouri cities we cover

Cities bill differently (some put trash on the tax bill, some cover more services), so a higher number isn't necessarily worse. The property tax rate is compared instead of dollars because house values differ.

Questions to ask your candidates

Each one starts from a number above. Any candidate can answer them.

1. Sewer and utility-bill fees

The fact: Sewer and flat utility-bill charges here come to about $397 a year, lower than 38 of the other 42 Missouri cities we cover. Some cities bill sewer on the property tax bill instead, which is not counted here.

Ask: "Sewer and flat utility-bill charges here cost about $397 a year, lower than 38 of the other 42 Missouri cities we cover. What drives that cost, and would you change anything?"

2. Electricity and gas

The fact: Electricity and gas for a typical house here cost about $2,034 a year, lower than 35 of the other 42 Missouri cities we cover. Rates are set mostly by the utility and the state.

Ask: "Electricity and gas here cost about $2,034 a year for a typical house, lower than 35 of the other 42 Missouri cities we cover. Which parts of that can the city influence, and what would you do about them?"

Common questions about Kennett house costs

What is the property tax rate in Kennett?

About 5.79% of the value before exemptions a year (2025 tax year, Dunklin County (Kennett 39 School District)), plus flat charges on the same bill.

How much is property tax on a $500,000 house in Kennett?

About $28,952 a year on $500,000 of the value before exemptions.

How much is the water bill in Kennett?

About $81 a month for water and sewer at typical use (9 units, or 6,732 gallons a month) on Kennett Board of Public Works.

How much does trash pickup cost in Kennett?

$19 a month for a house.

How much does a house in Kennett cost to run each year?

All Missouri cities All cities