Caledonia, Missouri.
Typical home $231,421 (+12.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$760 (+167%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,560 +12%
- $205,860$231,421 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,025 +41%
- $164,395$231,421 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.
- Caledonia$1,215
- 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 Caledonia, MO rose 12.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Caledonia, Washington County, Missouri
Caledonia is a village of 131 people in Washington County. Unemployment in Washington County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Caledonia is a very small village in Washington County, Missouri, with a population that is among the smallest of any place on the map. Homes here are priced above what households in the county would typically find easy, given that the county's median household income is modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs and lows staying close to freezing or below, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Snowfall is light for a cold-winter place, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, manufacturing and shops. Very few adults hold a four-year degree, and few work from home. Across Washington County, the largest workplaces include Elara Caring, which provides home health care, Potosi R-III Schools and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Elephant Rocks State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Buford Mountain Conservation Area is another short drive off. Council Bluff Lake, also a short drive away, offers water for the warmer months. Goose Creek, Lost Creek and Clear Creek run in or beside town, and for a longer outing, Mark Twain National Forest is a longer drive away.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 4%work from home
What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 4,998 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 67°. About 12 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Potosi Southwest weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Elara CaringHome health care agencies257
- Potosi R-iii SchoolsSchool district215FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters211
- Red Wing Shoe Co. PotosiFootwear manufacturing209
- Washington County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital166FTE
- Kingston K-14 SchoolsSchool district122FTE
- Tide HealthGroupSkilled nursing facilities111
- Great Mines Health Center - PotosiCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient78
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,053 people in all across the county; Caledonia 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Caledonia’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 Washington County.
Caledonia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Caledonia$231,421
- 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 Caledonia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Caledonia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.