Henrietta, Missouri.
Typical home $107,991 (+1.9% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$327 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,963 +2%
- $106,029$107,991 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,436 +19%
- $90,555$107,991 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.
- Henrietta$567
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Henrietta, MO rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Henrietta, Ray County, Missouri
Henrietta is a city of 278 people in Ray County. Unemployment in Ray County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ray 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Henrietta is a very small city in Ray County, Missouri, and daily life here is quiet and close-knit. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and a good share of households live below the poverty line, while homes cost far less than in most of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Ray County, some of the largest workplaces are Henkel US Operations Corporation-Richmond, Ray County Memorial Hospital and the Richmond R-XVI Schools. The commute is a long one, so many people drive some distance to their jobs, and few work from home. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, and jobs have grown slightly.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Battle of Lexington State Historic Site is a museum on a Civil War battlefield, and Crooked River is a river good for a quiet outing. A longer drive brings you to the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, a museum that is the best known of the nearby places.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Ray County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ray County had 4,035 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Richmond 3S weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ray County
- Henkel US Operations Corporation-RichmondAdhesives manufacturing280
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters263
- Richmond R-xvi SchoolsSchool district213FTE
- RAY County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital181FTE
- Lawson R-xiv SchoolsSchool district110FTE
- Harps Food StoreRetail grocery104
- Ideal IndustriesSheltered workshops80
- Orrick R-XI SchoolsSchool district44FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 774 people in all across the county; Henrietta has one 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Henrietta’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 Ray County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Henrietta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Henrietta$107,991
- 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 Henrietta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Henrietta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.