Albany, Missouri.
Typical home $130,577 (+2.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$352 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,733 +2%
- $127,843$130,577 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,390 +17%
- $111,186$130,577 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.
- Albany$685
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Albany, MO rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Albany, Gentry County, Missouri
Albany is a city of 1,679 people in Gentry County. Half its households earn more than $44,926 a year and half less, against $55,848 across Gentry County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Gentry County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Albany is a small city and the seat of Gentry County, Missouri, with a population that makes it a place where neighbors tend to know one another. The median age sits close to that of the country as a whole, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. The largest workplaces in Albany are Northwest Medical Center, a critical access hospital, along with Albany R-III Schools and Hy-Vee. Across Gentry County there are somewhat fewer jobs than a year earlier, though unemployment has eased over the same stretch. Commutes are short, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Albany is a place for quiet time outdoors beside the water. Weldon Branch, a small river, runs in or beside town. Wildcat Creek and Big Muddy Creek are both a short drive away, and make for easy outings on a mild day.
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- 833households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gentry County had 2,121 jobs in 2025, 2.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Albany weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Albany
- Northwest Medical CenterCritical access hospital167FTE
- Albany R-iii SchoolsSchool district57FTE
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 207 people in all. 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Albany’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Gentry County.
Albany home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Albany$130,577
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Albany11
Zip codes with a Albany address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Albany — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.