Bunceton, Missouri.
Typical home $254,718 (-2.4% in a year). Columbia, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $143 (-10%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $6,381 -2%
- $261,100$254,718 since Sep 2025
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.
- Bunceton$1,337
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Bunceton, MO fell 2.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bunceton, Cooper County, Missouri
Bunceton is a city of 334 people in Cooper County. Unemployment in Cooper County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 4.5% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bunceton is a very small city in Cooper County, in central Missouri, where most people know one another by sight. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than is typical across the country, and a share of households live below the poverty line. Homes sell at prices well above what the county's lower incomes might suggest, and winters are cold, summers hot, with a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and banking, insurance and property making up much of the rest. Across Cooper County, the largest workplaces include Kawasaki Motor MFG. Corp. U.S.A, Walmart and Boonville R-I Schools. Few people work from home, the typical commute is a fairly long one, and the county has added jobs over the past year while unemployment has eased slightly.
Things to do. The closest outings are small streams a short drive away, including Gartners Branch, Stephens Branch and Hutchison Branch. For a longer trip, the Lamine River is a river a longer drive away, and Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a longer drive away. Faurot Field, a stadium also a longer drive off, is the place to go for a college football day.
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- 104households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cooper County had 5,093 jobs in 2025, 4.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Boonville weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cooper County
- Kawasaki Motor MFG. Corp. U.S.AGasoline engines manufacturing349
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters259
- Boonville R-I SchoolsSchool district247FTE
- HPMP Boonville FacilityMechanical rubber goods manufacturing198
- First Student55
- Ashley Manor Health & RehabilitationHomes for the elderly with nursing care54
- Pilot Grove C-4 SchoolsSchool district54FTE
- Boonville Valley HopeAlcoholism rehabilitation hospitals51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,120 people in all across the county; Bunceton has none of its own. School districts come 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
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bunceton’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 Cooper County and the Columbia, MO metro.
Bunceton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bunceton$254,718
- 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 Bunceton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bunceton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.