Kahoka, Missouri.
Typical home $157,041 (+13.8% in a year). Fort Madison-Keokuk, IA-IL-MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$258 (+46%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $18,990 +14%
- $138,051$157,041 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.
- Kahoka$824
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Kahoka, MO rose 13.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kahoka, Clark County, Missouri
Kahoka is a city of 1,961 people in Clark County. Unemployment in Clark County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kahoka is a small city and the seat of Clark County, in the far northeast corner of Missouri. Household incomes across the county run lower than in much of the state, and the typical home here is modestly priced. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country as a whole, and most people have a short drive to work.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and banking, insurance and property close behind. Among the largest workplaces across Clark County are Clark CO. R-I Schools, Gregory Container and Industrial Opportunities. Jobs across the county slipped last year, though unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. The Montgomery Opera House, a theatre, sits in or beside town. A short drive away are Iliniwek Village State Historic Site and Brush Creek, a river. Shimek State Forest, a protected area, is a longer drive. Winters are cold and snowy, summers warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain, so the outdoors suits the milder seasons best.
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- 668households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clark County had 1,383 jobs in 2025, 2.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 27 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Donnellson weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clark County
- Clark Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district132FTE
- Gregory ContainerAerosol cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing55
- Industrial OpportunitiesSheltered workshops37
- Dadant & Sons Inc Candle FactoryApplicators, wood, manufacturing34
- M&K Employee ServicesProfessional employer organizations24
- Prairieland FSAgricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 172 people in all across the county; Kahoka 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- HailRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kahoka’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 Clark County and the Fort Madison-Keokuk, IA-IL-MO metro.
Kahoka home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kahoka$157,041
- 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.
- Kahoka9
Zip codes with a Kahoka address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kahoka — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.