Holcomb, Missouri.
Typical home $87,682 (+7.1% in a year). Kennett, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$51 (+13%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $5,807 +7%
- $81,875$87,682 since Sep 2025
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.
- Holcomb$460
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Holcomb, MO rose 7.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Holcomb, Dunklin County, Missouri
Holcomb is a city of 642 people in Dunklin County. Unemployment in Dunklin County was 6.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dunklin County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Holcomb is a very small city in Dunklin County, in the Missouri Bootheel. Homes here are modestly priced, and household incomes across the county sit below what is typical for the state. Few adults have a four-year degree, and hardly anyone works from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Dunklin County, the biggest workplaces include Walmart, the Kennett 39 Schools district and National Health Care. Unemployment across the county is unchanged from a year ago, and there are slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Chalk Bluff, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. Morris State Park, a protected area, and Cane Creek, a river, are both a longer drive away. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July, so spring and fall may suit outdoor outings best.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What people in Dunklin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dunklin County had 8,997 jobs in 2025, 1.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kennett Radio Kboa weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dunklin County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters298
- Kennett 39 SchoolsSchool district259FTE
- National Health CareSkilled nursing facilities125
- Quality Roofing Contractors of SEMORoofing contractors125
- Malden R-I SchoolsSchool district117FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores107
- Campbell Healthcare & Senior LivingNursing homes84
- Senath-hornersville C-8 SchoolsSchool district82FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,184 people in all across the county; Holcomb 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Holcomb’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 Dunklin County and the Kennett, MO metro.
Holcomb home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Holcomb$87,682
- 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 Holcomb address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Holcomb — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.