Edwards, Missouri.
Typical home $173,776 (-5.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$346 (+61%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,514 -6%
- $184,289$173,776 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $40,611 -19%
- $214,387$173,776 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.
- Edwards$912
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Edwards, MO fell 5.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Edwards, Benton County, Missouri
The Census does not count Edwards on its own, so the figures here are Benton County's. Half the county's households earn more than $52,567 a year and half less; 20% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 84% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Benton County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Benton County work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Edwards is a small town in Benton County, in central Missouri. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with January the coldest month and July the warmest, and rain and melted snow fall heavily through the year. Across the county, the population is older than in many parts of the country, and household incomes tend to be lower than across the nation.
Work. Across Benton County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in manufacturing, or in shops. Jobs grew slightly last year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier. Few residents work from home, and most homes are lived in by their owners.
Things to do. Lake of the Ozarks is a reservoir a longer drive away and is one of the best known water destinations nearby. Bridal Cave, a tourist attraction, is also a longer drive away. Buck Branch, a river in or beside town, is the closest of these options.
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- 8,573households
- 54.5median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Benton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Benton County had 3,818 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Truman Dam & Rsvr weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Benton County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters230
- Warsaw R-IX SchoolsSchool district162FTE
- Cole Camp R-I SchoolsSchool district118FTE
- Regal RexnordMotors, electric, manufacturing111
- Lincoln R-II SchoolsSchool district83FTE
- Ozark Fire Sprinkler CoSprinkler system, building, installation35
- Varsity SpiritUniforms, band, cut and sewn from purchased fabric23
- Tompkins Family FarmsFarrow-to-finish operations22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 441 people in all. 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 windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Benton County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Benton County.
Edwards home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Edwards$173,776
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Edwards listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Edwards30.21%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Edwards25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Edwards5
Zip codes with a Edwards address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Edwards — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.