Easton, Missouri.
Typical home $368,250 (+7.6% in a year). St. Joseph, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$822 (+74%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $26,128 +8%
- $342,122$368,250 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.
- Easton$1,933
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Easton, MO rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Easton, Buchanan County, Missouri
Easton is a city of 227 people in Buchanan County. Half its households earn more than $61,250 a year and half less, against $62,158 across Buchanan County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Buchanan County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Buchanan 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Easton is a very small city in Buchanan County, Missouri, with a population that is a tiny fraction of the county's. Household incomes here are a little below the county's, and homes are valued well above what a household income at this level might suggest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Buchanan County, some of the largest workplaces are Heartland Regional Medical Center, Altec Industries and St. Joseph Schools. Unemployment in the county is slightly lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. Several rivers and creeks lie a short drive away, including One Hundred and Two River, Third Fork and Jordan Creek, which suit time spent outdoors. The Glore Psychiatric Museum is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Pony Express Museum and Wallace State Park are both a longer drive from town.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 7%work from home
What people in Buchanan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Buchanan County had 46,348 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cosby 2W weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Buchanan County
- Heartland Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,892FTE
- Altec IndustriesManufacturing2,538
- Triumph FoodsPork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants2,245
- Lehr Construction CompanyConstruction management, industrial building1,176
- St. Joseph SchoolsSchool district1,171FTE
- Boehringer Ingelheim Animal HealthVaccines manufacturing878
- THE Hillshire Brands CompanyMeat processed from carcasses829
- Clarios - St. Joseph MO DAPStorage battery manufacturing709
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 108 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 22,353 people in all across the county; Easton has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Easton’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 Buchanan County and the St. Joseph, MO-KS metro.
Easton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Easton$368,250
- 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 Easton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Easton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.