Avondale, Missouri.
Typical home $184,850 (+0.7% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$569 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,326 +1%
- $183,524$184,850 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,003 +39%
- $132,847$184,850 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.
- Avondale$970
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Avondale, MO rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Avondale, Clay County, Missouri
Avondale is a city of 436 people in Clay County. Half its households earn more than $53,125 a year and half less, against $88,468 across Clay County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Clay County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Avondale is a very small city in Clay County, Missouri, where everyone is likely to know a good many of their neighbors. Household incomes are well below the county's, and a typical home costs less than in much of the Kansas City area. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, shops, schools, hospitals and social care, and professional and business services. Unemployment across Clay County has eased a little over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Some of the largest workplaces across the county are Ford Motor Company, which makes trucks and vans, North Kansas City 74 Schools and North Kansas City Hospital.
Things to do. CPKC Stadium is in or beside town, and Arrowhead Stadium and Kauffman Stadium are a short drive away for football and baseball. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, an art museum, is also a short drive away. The Kansas River, a short drive away, is a place to get out by the water.
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- 23%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clay County had 110,830 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 72°. About 11 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kansas City Downtown Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clay County
- Ford Motor CompanyManufacturing of trucks and vans9,000
- North Kansas City 74 SchoolsSchool district3,135FTE
- North Kansas City HospitalGeneral hospital2,782FTE
- Garney Holding CompanyUtility line, construction2,589
- Safe Haven Security ServicesAlarm system monitoring services2,200
- Liberty 53 SchoolsSchool district1,896FTE
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services1,727
- FedExCourier and express delivery services1,681
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 230 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 43,555 people in all across the county; Avondale has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Avondale’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 Clay County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Avondale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Avondale$184,850
- 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.
Zip codes with a Avondale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Avondale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.