Eldon, Missouri.
Typical home $192,743 (+1.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$614 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,176 +1%
- $190,568$192,743 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,734 +35%
- $143,009$192,743 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.
- Eldon$1,012
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Eldon, MO rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Eldon, Miller County, Missouri
Eldon is a city of 4,416 people in Miller County. Half its households earn more than $41,684 a year and half less, against $56,736 across Miller County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Miller County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eldon is a small city in Miller County, Missouri, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and a typical home costs less than in many parts of the country. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in the country as a whole, and winters are cold while summers turn hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in manufacturing. Among the larger workplaces in Eldon are Adient US, which makes automobile seat frames, Eldon R-I Schools and Dillon Stores, a grocery chain. Commutes are short, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Blue Spring Creek, a river, is a short drive away. A longer drive leads to the Lake of the Ozarks, a large reservoir, and to Bridal Cave, a tourist attraction. Lake of the Ozarks State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,985households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Miller County had 7,806 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eldon weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Eldon
- Adient USAutomobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing365
- Eldon R-I SchoolsSchool district205FTE
- Dillon StoresSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores68
- Gateway Industries of EldonNovelties, not specified elsewhere, manufacturing43
- EldonMail and parcel delivery28
- Hogan TransportsGeneral freight trucking, local28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 532 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of EldonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Eldon’s census tracts, 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 Miller County.
Eldon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eldon$192,743
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Eldon listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Eldon30.88%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Eldon34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Eldon7
Zip codes with a Eldon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eldon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.