Glenaire, Missouri.
Typical home $277,401 (+0.6% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$787 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,657 +1%
- $275,743$277,401 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,984 +23%
- $226,417$277,401 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.
- Glenaire$1,456
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Glenaire, MO rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glenaire, Clay County, Missouri
Glenaire is a city of 539 people in Clay County. Half its households earn more than $92,813 a year and half less, against $88,468 across Clay County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Clay County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glenaire is a very small city in Clay County, Missouri, with far fewer residents than most towns. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and few people live below the poverty line. The typical resident is middle-aged, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Homes here are valued well above what many American towns see.
Work. Residents of Glenaire work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, banks and insurance, and professional and business services also employing many. Across Clay County, the largest workplaces include Ford Motor Company, which builds trucks and vans, North Kansas City 74 Schools, and North Kansas City Hospital. Jobs across the county slipped slightly last year, and the commute for a typical resident is a moderate one.
Things to do. Liberty Jail, a museum, is in or beside town. A short drive away are the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum and Worlds of Fun, an amusement park. Winters here are cold with some snow, summers are hot, and rain falls fairly evenly through the year, so outdoor outings suit the warmer months best.
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- 255households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clay County had 110,830 jobs in 2025, 0.9% 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 90° and lows near 72°. About 11 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kansas City Downtown Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clay County
- Ford Motor CompanyManufacturing of trucks and vans9,000
- North Kansas City 74 SchoolsSchool district3,135FTE
- North Kansas City HospitalGeneral hospital2,782FTE
- Garney Holding CompanyUtility line, construction2,589
- Safe Haven Security ServicesAlarm system monitoring services2,200
- Liberty 53 SchoolsSchool district1,896FTE
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services1,727
- FedExCourier and express delivery services1,681
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 230 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 43,555 people in all across the county; Glenaire has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Glenaire’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 Clay County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Glenaire home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glenaire$277,401
- 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 Glenaire address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glenaire — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.