Cameron, Missouri.
Typical home $249,499 (+5.0% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$749 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,945 +5%
- $237,554$249,499 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,960 +33%
- $187,539$249,499 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.
- Cameron$1,310
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Cameron, MO rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cameron, Clinton County, Missouri
Cameron is a city of 8,513 people in Clinton County. Half its households earn more than $61,791 a year and half less, against $70,627 across Clinton County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Clinton County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 10.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cameron is a small Missouri city in Clinton County, with a population that is steady rather than crowded. Residents are a little older than the typical American, and most homes are lived in by their owners, though fewer than across much of the county. Incomes run below the county's, and a four-year degree is less common here than in many places. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in transport and warehousing. Among the largest workplaces in Cameron are Walmart, Cameron R-I Schools and CNH Industrial Cameron. The commute is short for most people, and few work from home. Clinton County has been adding jobs, and unemployment there has eased over the past year.
Things to do. Wallace State Park is the best known place nearby, a protected area just a short drive away for walking and time outdoors. Deer Creek and Wamsley Creek are both streams a short drive from town, and the One Hundred and Two River lies a longer drive away. Together they make for quiet days out close to home.
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- 2,754households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clinton County had 4,932 jobs in 2025, 10.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cameron weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cameron
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters243
- Cameron R-I SchoolsSchool district235FTE
- CNH Industrial CameronGeneral warehousing and storage104
- Clinco Sheltered IndustriesSheltered workshops51
- Summit School ServicesSchool and employee bus transportation34
- CameronMail and parcel delivery26
- Elevation CameronRaw farm products merchant wholesalers26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 484 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cameron’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 Clinton County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Cameron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cameron$249,499
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Cameron listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Cameron18.50%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cameron49
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Cameron14
Zip codes with a Cameron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cameron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.