Higbee, Missouri.
Typical home $212,110 (+13.3% in a year). Moberly, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$708 (+175%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,880 +13%
- $187,230$212,110 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,680 +44%
- $147,430$212,110 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.
- Higbee$1,113
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Higbee, MO rose 13.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Higbee, Randolph County, Missouri
Higbee is a city of 459 people in Randolph County. Unemployment in Randolph County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Randolph 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Higbee is a very small city in Randolph County, Missouri, the kind of place where a short commute is the norm and neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are priced well below what many buyers expect to pay elsewhere. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn properly warm by July, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents of Higbee work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in shops, in manufacturing, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Randolph County, some of the largest workplaces are Moberly Area Community College, Moberly Schools and Orscheln Products. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown only slightly.
Things to do. For time outdoors, several small creeks and streams, including Sugar Tree Branch, Bagby Branch and Cole Creek, are a short drive away. Finger Lakes State Park, a protected area good for a day out, is a longer drive away. Faurot Field, a stadium, is also a longer drive.
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- 9%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
What people in Randolph County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Randolph County had 9,247 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 15 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Moberly weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Randolph County
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage511
- Moberly Area Community CollegeTwo-year college475
- Moberly SchoolsSchool district365FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters325
- Orscheln ProductsBrake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing300
- Associated Electric Cooperative Inc - Thomas HillElectric power generation, fossil fuel224
- Mid-Am HoldingsSiding merchant wholesalers172
- Moberly Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital153FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,491 people in all across the county; Higbee has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Higbee’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 Randolph County and the Moberly, MO metro.
Higbee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Higbee$212,110
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Higbee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Higbee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.