Holden, Missouri.
Typical home $185,333 (-0.5% in a year). Warrensburg, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$522 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $920 -0%
- $186,252$185,333 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,273 +15%
- $161,060$185,333 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.
- Holden$973
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Holden, MO fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Holden, Johnson County, Missouri
Holden is a city of 2,210 people in Johnson County. Half its households earn more than $63,056 a year and half less, against $67,272 across Johnson County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Johnson County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Holden is a small city in Johnson County, Missouri, where the people tend to be somewhat older than in many places and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a good number of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with snow most years, summers turn properly hot, and rain falls throughout the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Across Johnson County, some of the largest workplaces are the University of Central Missouri, Western Missouri Medical Center and the Warrensburg R-VI Schools. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Camp Branch, a river a short drive away, and Scaly Bark Creek, another short drive off, are the nearest spots for time by the water. Farther out, Powell Gardens is a botanical garden, and Knob Noster State Park is a protected area for walking and being outdoors, each a longer drive.
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- 792households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Johnson County had 16,381 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 12 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elm weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Johnson County
- University of Central MissouriUniversity or college1,303
- EnersysLead acid storage batteries manufacturing600
- Warrensburg R-VI SchoolsSchool district534FTE
- Western Missouri Medical CenterGeneral hospital501FTE
- DC14 DC14 WarrensburgGeneral warehousing and storage460
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters410
- Knob Noster R-viii SchoolsSchool district255FTE
- RISE Community Services161
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,900 people in all across the county; Holden has two 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Holden’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 Johnson County and the Warrensburg, MO metro.
Holden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Holden$185,333
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Holden15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Holden6
Zip codes with a Holden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Holden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.