Eminence, Missouri.
Typical home $185,560 (+7.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$596 (+158%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,237 +7%
- $173,323$185,560 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,372 +37%
- $135,188$185,560 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.
- Eminence$974
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Eminence, MO rose 7.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eminence, Shannon County, Missouri
Eminence is a city of 515 people in Shannon County. Unemployment in Shannon County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Shannon 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eminence is a very small city, the kind of place where residents are likely to know one another by name. Homes here are typically valued well below what is common across much of the country, and household incomes across Shannon County sit below the Missouri norm. Very few adults hold a four-year degree, and hardly anyone works from home.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and shops also employing many. Across Shannon County, the largest workplaces include Hardwoods of Missouri, a hardwood and parquet flooring manufacturer, along with Eminence R-I Schools and Rock Point Nursing Center. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. The Ozark National Scenic Riverways, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Big Creek, a river. Jacks Fork, another river, lies a longer drive off, and Current River State Park is farther still. Winters are cold, with a little snow, and summers turn hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Shannon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shannon County had 1,600 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 65°. About 6 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eminence North weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shannon County
- South Central MO CAACommunity action service agencies231
- Hardwoods of MissouriParquet flooring, hardwood, manufacturing113
- Eminence R-I SchoolsSchool district88FTE
- Rock Point Nursing CenterSkilled nursing facilities72
- Winona R-iii SchoolsSchool district71FTE
- Bunker R-iii SchoolsSchool district46FTE
- Royal Oak EnterprisesTreating wood products with creosote or other preservatives40
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 456 people in all across the county; Eminence has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Eminence’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. 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 Shannon County.
Eminence home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eminence$185,560
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Eminence 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.
- Eminence17.08%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Eminence22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Eminence address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eminence — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.