Blackburn, Missouri.
. Marshall, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$768 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Living in Blackburn, Saline County, Missouri
Blackburn is a city of 224 people in Saline County. Unemployment in Saline County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Saline County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Blackburn is a very small city in Saline County, Missouri, the kind of place where residents are likely to know one another. Few adults here hold a four-year degree compared with the country as a whole, and household incomes across Saline County run on the modest side. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm to hot in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow over the course of a year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and retail also employing many. Across Saline County, the largest workplaces include Conagra Brands, Cargill Protein and Marshall Schools. The commute to work is fairly long for many people, and a good number work from home. Unemployment across the county is about where it was a year ago, and the county has lost a few jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Cragg Branch is a river a short drive away. Van Meter State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive, as is Fort Orleans, a fort with a place in the area's early history. Pack a lunch and plan on making a day of the longer trips.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Saline County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Saline County had 8,832 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waverly weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saline County
- Conagra BrandsFrozen specialty food manufacturing775
- Cargill ProteinMeats, cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses623
- Marshall SchoolsSchool district379FTE
- Filtration Slater IGFGIndustrial and comemerical fan blower and air purification equipment manufacturing350
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters294
- Missouri Valley CollegeUniversity or college278
- John Fitzgibbon Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital258FTE
- Coreslab StructuresPrestressed concrete products manufacturing180
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,027 people in all across the county; Blackburn has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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 wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Blackburn’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 Saline County and the Marshall, MO metro.
Blackburn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Blackburn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Blackburn — 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.