Crane, Missouri.
Typical home $147,689 (+2.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$236 (+44%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $2,992 +2%
- $144,697$147,689 since Sep 2025
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.
- Crane$775
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Crane, MO rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Crane, Stone County, Missouri
Crane is a city of 1,495 people in Stone County. Unemployment in Stone County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Stone County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Crane is a small city in the Missouri Ozarks, in Stone County. Homes here are modest in price, and incomes are below the county's, with more people living below the poverty line than is typical. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights common. Summers are warm to hot, with July the warmest month. Snow is light, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and professional and business services. Across Stone County, some of the largest workplaces are Silver Dollar City, the Reeds Spring R-IV Schools and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs over the past year. The typical commute is a moderate one, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Crane Creek and Wheeler Branch are rivers a short drive away, handy for time by the water. Farther afield, Table Rock Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away, and Silver Dollar City is an amusement park, also a longer drive. Marvel Cave, a tourist attraction, is likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 565households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 34%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Stone County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stone County had 7,389 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 66°. About 7 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Galena weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stone County
- Silver Dollar CityTheme parks, amusement2,233
- Reeds Spring R-IV SchoolsSchool district354FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters293
- Blue EYE R-V SchoolsSchool district103FTE
- Crane R-iii SchoolsSchool district82FTE
- Galena R-II SchoolsSchool district64FTE
- Hilton Grand Vacation Inc.59
- Capital Vacations Employee GroupTravel hospitality40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,698 people in all across the county; Crane 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Crane’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 Stone County.
Crane home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Crane$147,689
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Crane7
Zip codes with a Crane address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Crane — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.