Adrian, Missouri.
Typical home $259,938 (+4.9% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$795 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,124 +5%
- $247,813$259,938 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,011 +24%
- $209,927$259,938 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.
- Adrian$1,364
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Adrian, MO rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Adrian, Bates County, Missouri
Adrian is a city of 1,730 people in Bates County. Half its households earn more than $52,829 a year and half less, against $60,733 across Bates County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Bates County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Adrian is a small city in Bates County, Missouri, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by relatively few adults. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, professional and business services, and the building trades. Across Bates County, the largest workplaces include Bates County Memorial Hospital, Walmart and the Butler R-V Schools. The drive to work is fairly long for many people, and a small number work from home.
Things to do. Outdoor time here centers on the water and open country. Eightmile Creek and Black Creek are both a short drive away, and the Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a longer drive away. History-minded visitors can head the same longer distance to the Battle of Island Mound State Historic Site.
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- 793households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bates County had 3,747 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 10 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Butler 4W weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bates County
- Bates County Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital221FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters192
- Butler R-V SchoolsSchool district127FTE
- Adrian R-iii SchoolsSchool district88FTE
- Medicalodges ButlerSkilled nursing facilities84
- Osage Valley ElectricDistribution of electric power49
- Butler- Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc. / FFE TransportationGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, less than truckload44
- Rich Hill R-IV SchoolsSchool district43FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 470 people in all across the county; Adrian has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Strong windVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Adrian’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Bates County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Adrian home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Adrian$259,938
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Adrian listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Adrian17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Adrian6
Zip codes with a Adrian address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Adrian — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.