Dearborn, Missouri.
Typical home $322,747 (+3.8% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$893 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,896 +4%
- $310,851$322,747 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,472 +24%
- $260,275$322,747 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.
- Dearborn$1,694
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Dearborn, MO rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dearborn, Platte County, Missouri
Dearborn is a city of 482 people in Platte County. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Platte County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Platte County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dearborn is a very small city in Platte County, Missouri, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the typical home value runs well above what many small towns see. Winters are cold, with January highs and lows below freezing, and summers turn properly hot by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year, so the seasons are all clearly marked.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. Not many work from home. Across Platte County, some of the largest workplaces are Park Hill Schools, Park University and Saint Lukes North Hospital, and the county has added a small number of jobs over the past year. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than in many places, and unemployment in the county has eased slightly over the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Jordan Branch and Castile Creek are both rivers a short drive away. Weston Bend State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive, as is Kansas Speedway if a day at the race track appeals. Sporting Park, a stadium, and Liberty Jail, a museum, are also a longer drive away.
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- 220households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Platte County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Platte County had 48,369 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 68°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Smithville Lake weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Platte County
- Park Hill SchoolsSchool district1,862FTE
- Custom Truck One Source - Kansas CityCranes, construction-type, manufacturing1,060
- Park UniversityUniversity or college1,055
- Saint Lukes North HospitalGeneral hospital743FTE
- Capital Electric Line BuildersElectric power transmission line and tower construction674
- Platte Co. R-iii SchoolsSchool district620FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters493
- CogentIndustrial equipment and machinery repair and maintenance services482
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 135 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,172 people in all across the county; Dearborn has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dearborn’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 Platte County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Dearborn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dearborn$322,747
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Dearborn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dearborn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.