Chilhowee, Missouri.
Typical home $281,186 (+4.3% in a year). Warrensburg, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$798 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,699 +4%
- $269,487$281,186 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,648 +21%
- $232,538$281,186 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.
- Chilhowee$1,476
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Chilhowee, MO rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chilhowee, Johnson County, Missouri
Chilhowee is a town of 291 people in Johnson County. Unemployment in Johnson County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Johnson County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chilhowee is a very small town in Johnson County, Missouri, where everyone is likely to know one another. Homes here are valued below what is typical for the country as a whole, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while July brings hot days, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. The commute is a little longer than a short hop across town, and very few people work from home. Across Johnson County, the largest workplaces include the University of Central Missouri, Enersys, which makes lead acid storage batteries, and Warrensburg R-VI Schools.
Things to do. Several creeks lie a short drive away, including Bear Creek, Brushy Creek and Cottonwood Branch, which suit a quiet afternoon by the water. Knob Noster State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away and is the natural choice for a day out among the trees.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 27 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Johnson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Johnson County had 16,381 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 67°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Warrensburg 4NW weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Johnson County
- University of Central MissouriUniversity or college1,303
- EnersysLead acid storage batteries manufacturing600
- Warrensburg R-VI SchoolsSchool district534FTE
- Western Missouri Medical CenterGeneral hospital501FTE
- DC14 DC14 WarrensburgGeneral warehousing and storage460
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters410
- Knob Noster R-viii SchoolsSchool district255FTE
- RISE Community Services161
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,900 people in all across the county; Chilhowee has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Chilhowee’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 Johnson County and the Warrensburg, MO metro.
Chilhowee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chilhowee$281,186
- 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.
- Chilhowee7
Zip codes with a Chilhowee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chilhowee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.