Cole Camp, Missouri.
Typical home $203,407 (-1.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$460 (+76%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,033 -2%
- $207,440$203,407 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $303 +0%
- $203,104$203,407 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.
- Cole Camp$1,068
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Cole Camp, MO fell 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cole Camp, Benton County, Missouri
Cole Camp is a city of 1,104 people in Benton County. Unemployment in Benton County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Benton 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cole Camp is a small city in Benton County, Missouri, where the people living here tend to be older than across much of the country. Incomes across the county run below the national picture, and more households than in many places live with limited means. Homes here are typically priced modestly. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow arrive steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in manufacturing and in shops. Across Benton County, the largest workplaces include Walmart, the Warsaw R-IX Schools and the Cole Camp R-I Schools. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in the country as a whole, and few people work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby. Indian Creek and Williams Creek are both a short drive away and make easy places to walk to the water's edge. Harry S. Truman Reservoir, a large reservoir, is a longer drive away and suits a day out.
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- 632households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 7%work from home
What people in Benton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Benton County had 3,818 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 18 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cole Camp 3NW weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Benton County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters230
- Warsaw R-IX SchoolsSchool district162FTE
- Cole Camp R-I SchoolsSchool district118FTE
- Regal RexnordMotors, electric, manufacturing111
- Lincoln R-II SchoolsSchool district83FTE
- Ozark Fire Sprinkler CoSprinkler system, building, installation35
- Varsity SpiritUniforms, band, cut and sewn from purchased fabric23
- Tompkins Family FarmsFarrow-to-finish operations22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 441 people in all across the county; Cole Camp has one 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
- Strong windVery high
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Cole Camp’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 Benton County.
Cole Camp home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cole Camp$203,407
- 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.
- Cole Camp11
Zip codes with a Cole Camp address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cole Camp — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.