Brookfield, Missouri.
Typical home $135,773 (+11.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$448 (+169%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,599 +11%
- $122,174$135,773 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,459 +50%
- $90,314$135,773 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.
- Brookfield$713
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Brookfield, MO rose 11.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brookfield, Linn County, Missouri
Brookfield is a city of 4,111 people in Linn County. Half its households earn more than $53,000 a year and half less, against $61,635 across Linn County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Linn County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brookfield is a small city in Linn County, with a population older than many Missouri towns. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Household incomes run below the county's, and poverty is a real part of the picture for some families. Few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels close behind. Among the largest workplaces in Brookfield are Brookfield R-III Schools, Varsity Spirit and Pershing Memorial Hospital. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home. Unemployment in Linn County is a little lower than a year ago, while the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Pershing State Park, a protected area, and the Gen. John J. Pershing Boyhood Home State Historic Site are both a short drive away. The Walt Disney Hometown Museum is also a short drive away, and Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge is a longer drive. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn quite warm, with rain spread through the year.
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- 1,832households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 14 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Linn County had 4,083 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 19 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brookfield weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brookfield
- Brookfield R-iii SchoolsSchool district136FTE
- Varsity SpiritUniforms, band, cut and sewn from purchased fabric133
- Life Care Center of BrookfieldSkilled nursing facilities124
- Pershing Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital106FTE
- Walsworth Publishing323117 books printing101
- FirmaPakBottles, plastics, manufacturing91
- DEL Transport36
- BrookfieldMail and parcel delivery27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 639 people in all. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brookfield’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 Linn County.
Brookfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brookfield$135,773
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Brookfield 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.
- Brookfield22.41%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brookfield27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brookfield7
Zip codes with a Brookfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brookfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.