Drexel, Missouri.
Typical home $326,698 (+7.2% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$932 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,906 +7%
- $304,792$326,698 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,218 +24%
- $263,480$326,698 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.
- Drexel$1,715
- 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 Drexel, MO rose 7.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Drexel, Cass County, Missouri
Drexel is a city of 968 people in Cass County. Half its households earn more than $54,519 a year and half less, against $87,535 across Cass County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Cass County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cass 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Drexel is a small city in Cass County, Missouri, with a small population by any measure. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well below the county's. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a long one, with a modest number of people working from home. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, while summers turn hot by July, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Across Cass County, some of the largest workplaces are school districts such as Raymore-Peculiar R-II Schools and Belton Schools, along with Walmart's warehouse and supercenter operations. Unemployment across the county is low and has changed little from a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Close by, the Battle of Island Mound State Historic Site is an archaeological site a short drive away, and Coldwater Creek is a river a short drive away as well. A longer drive leads to Hillsdale Lake, a reservoir, and to the Harry S. Truman National Historic Site, a protected area.
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- 398households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Cass County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cass County had 31,431 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paola weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cass County
- Urban OutfittersCleaners, drycleaning and laundry service1,125
- Raymore-peculiar R-II SchoolsSchool district819FTE
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage816
- ChewyGeneral warehousing and storage756
- Belton 124 SchoolsSchool district549FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters377
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters363
- Southern Glazers Wine and SpiritsWine and distiller alcoholic beverage merchant wholesalers348
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 62 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,508 people in all across the county; Drexel has two 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Drexel’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 Cass County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Drexel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Drexel$326,698
- 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.
- Drexel15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Drexel5
Zip codes with a Drexel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Drexel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.