Corder, Missouri.
Typical home $191,491 (+0.2% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$597 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $295 +0%
- $191,196$191,491 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,329 +26%
- $152,162$191,491 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.
- Corder$1,005
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Corder, MO rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Corder, Lafayette County, Missouri
Corder is a city of 418 people in Lafayette County. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Lafayette County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lafayette County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Corder is a very small city in Lafayette County, Missouri, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Typical home values are modest, and incomes across the county run comfortably above what many rural counties see. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm and hot by July, with snow most winters and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and the building trades also common. Across Lafayette County, some of the largest workplaces are Odessa R-vii Schools, Lafayette Regional Health Center and Milbank Manufacturing - Concordia. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a fairly long one. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, though the county has lost a small number of jobs.
Things to do. Several creeks are a short drive away, including Bear Creek and Cottonwood Creek, which suit anyone who likes being near water. A longer drive brings you to Van Meter State Park, a protected area, and the Battle of Lexington State Historic Site, a museum on the Civil War battle fought there. Fort Orleans is also a longer drive away, for those interested in early frontier history.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
What people in Lafayette County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lafayette County had 8,754 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 14 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Higginsville weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lafayette County
- Odessa R-vii SchoolsSchool district280FTE
- Milbank Manufacturing - ConcordiaBoxes, light gauge metal, manufacturing260
- Tyson DeliMeat processed from carcasses241
- Advanced IndustriesContainers, light gauge metal, manufacturing179
- Lafayette Regional Health CenterCritical access hospital169FTE
- John Knox Village East & Meyer Care CenterNursing homes145
- Lexington R-V SchoolsSchool district143FTE
- Lafayette Co. C-1 SchoolsSchool district121FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,846 people in all across the county; Corder 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Corder’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 Lafayette County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Corder home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Corder$191,491
- 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 Corder address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Corder — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.