Gower, Missouri.
Typical home $318,823 (+5.4% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$986 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,231 +5%
- $302,592$318,823 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,253 +37%
- $233,569$318,823 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.
- Gower$1,673
- 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 Gower, MO rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gower, Clinton County, Missouri
Gower is a city of 1,533 people in Clinton County. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Clinton County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 10.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gower is a small city in Clinton County, Missouri, and its residents are younger than in many American towns. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented, and a typical home is valued well above what the county's incomes alone might suggest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights, while July brings warm summer days, and rain and melted snow fall at a fairly steady, moderate rate through the year.
Work. People in Gower work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing many. Across Clinton County, some of the largest workplaces are Cameron R-I Schools, Black & Veatch and Lathrop R-II Schools. Commutes are somewhat long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Castile Creek and Third Fork are rivers a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Wallace State Park, a protected area, and to Smithville Lake, a reservoir. Liberty Jail, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 625households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clinton County had 4,932 jobs in 2025, 10.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 68°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Smithville Lake weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clinton County
- Cameron R-I SchoolsSchool district235FTE
- Black & VeatchAlternative energy structure construction222
- Lathrop R-II SchoolsSchool district134FTE
- East Buchanan Co. C-1 SchoolsSchool district93FTE
- Clinton Co. R-iii SchoolsSchool district89FTE
- Paradise LockerMeats fresh, chilled or frozen, produced in slaughtering plants47
- Decker Construction ServicesDistribution line, sewer and water, construction45
- Redgate DisposalGarbage collection services37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 351 people in all across the county; Gower has one of its own. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gower’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Clinton County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Gower home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gower$318,823
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gower9
Zip codes with a Gower address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gower — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.