Hale, Missouri.
Typical home $239,052 (+4.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$759 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,688 +4%
- $229,364$239,052 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,129 +34%
- $178,922$239,052 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.
- Hale$1,255
- 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 Hale, MO rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hale, Livingston County, Missouri
Hale is a city of 375 people in Livingston County. Half its households earn more than $51,875 a year and half less, against $63,627 across Livingston County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Livingston County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Livingston County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hale is a very small city in Livingston County, Missouri, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and the typical home is worth a good deal. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold and snowy while summers turn hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades close behind. Across Livingston County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Hedrick Medical Center and Chillicothe R-II Schools. Many people travel a fair way to work, and some do their jobs from home.
Things to do. Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and Yellow Creek, a river, are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Pershing State Park is a protected area, and the Walt Disney Hometown Museum is a museum that takes a longer drive to reach.
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- 229households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Livingston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Livingston County had 6,113 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 14 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chillicothe 2S weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Livingston County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters248
- Hedrick Medical CenterCritical access hospital246FTE
- Chillicothe R-II SchoolsSchool district203FTE
- SonocoThermoforming163
- Donaldson CompanyAir purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing138
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores121
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter110
- Morningside CenterNursing homes100
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,866 people in all across the county; Hale has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hale’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 Livingston County.
Hale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hale$239,052
- 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 Hale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.