Harrisburg, Missouri.
Typical home $397,649 (+2.7% in a year). Columbia, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,195 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,604 +3%
- $387,045$397,649 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $74,664 +23%
- $322,986$397,649 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.
- Harrisburg$2,087
- 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 Harrisburg, MO rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Harrisburg, Boone County, Missouri
Harrisburg is a town of 271 people in Boone County. Unemployment in Boone County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Boone County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Harrisburg is a very small town in Boone County, Missouri, where most people probably know one another by sight. Typical home values here run well above what many older homeowners might expect for a place this size. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn properly hot by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year, so the surrounding country stays green.
Work. People who live in Harrisburg mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Boone County, some of the largest workplaces are Columbia 93 Schools, Boone Hospital Center and the Veterans Health Administration. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added a small number of jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Much of what is nearby is outdoors. Coon Creek and Lick Fork run in or beside town, and Finger Lakes State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Rocky Fork Lakes Conservation Area, a park. For a longer drive, Faurot Field is a stadium, and McAlester Arboretum is a botanical garden.
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- 11%below the poverty line
What people in Boone County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Boone County had 100,066 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 17 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Columbia U Of M weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Boone County
- Equipmentshare.comConstruction machinery and equipment rental or leasing without operator7,523
- Columbia 93 SchoolsSchool district2,904FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,798
- Shelter Mutual InsuranceCorporate offices1,745
- Boone Hospital CenterGeneral hospital1,743FTE
- Emery Sapp & SonsConstruction management, highway, road, street and bridge1,650
- Columbia CollegeUniversity or college878
- Hubbell Power Systems - Centralia OperationHardware, transmission pole and line, manufacturing735
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 153 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 26,762 people in all across the county; Harrisburg has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Harrisburg’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 Boone County and the Columbia, MO metro.
Harrisburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Harrisburg$397,649
- 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.
- Harrisburg16
Zip codes with a Harrisburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Harrisburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.