Buckner, Missouri.
Typical home $205,117 (+1.2% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$607 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,509 +1%
- $202,609$205,117 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,036 +28%
- $160,081$205,117 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.
- Buckner$1,077
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Buckner, MO rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Buckner, Jackson County, Missouri
Buckner is a city of 2,945 people in Jackson County. Half its households earn more than $87,350 a year and half less, against $68,577 across Jackson County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Jackson County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buckner is a small city in Jackson County, Missouri, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the county's, and typical home values sit at a level that Zillow puts well within reach of a middle-income buyer. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and some snow falls most years; summers are hot, with July the warmest, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Jackson County, some of the largest workplaces are Hallmark Marketing Company, Children's Mercy Hospital and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. A typical commute is a fairly ordinary one for the area, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is a well-known art museum, and the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum records the life of a president from Missouri; both are a longer drive away. Arrowhead Stadium, home of professional football in the area, is also a longer drive away, as is the Kansas City Zoo for a family outing.
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- 1,167households
- 12%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 374,810 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 13 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Independence weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Hallmark Marketing CompanyStationery supplies merchant wholesalers8,526
- FreedomCareActivity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities6,177
- HoneywellFlexible wiring boards, bare, manufacturing4,639
- Children's Mercy HospitalChildren's hospital4,347FTE
- Internal Revenue ServiceFederal government · Department of the Treasury3,743
- University of Missouri-Kansas CityUniversity or college3,399
- Saint Lukes Hospital of Kansas CityGeneral hospital3,321FTE
- Kansas City 33 SchoolsSchool district2,612FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 618 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 117,899 people in all across the county; Buckner has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Hailrelatively high in parts of BucknerRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of BucknerRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of BucknerRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Buckner’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Jackson County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Buckner home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buckner$205,117
- 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.
- Buckner9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Buckner address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buckner — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.