Kaiser, Missouri.
Typical home $294,763 (+1.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$909 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,695 +2%
- $290,067$294,763 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,132 +25%
- $236,631$294,763 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.
- Kaiser$1,547
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Kaiser, MO rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kaiser, Miller County, Missouri
The Census does not count Kaiser on its own, so the figures here are Miller County's. Half the county's households earn more than $56,736 a year and half less; 14% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 74% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Miller County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Miller County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kaiser is a small town in Miller County, in the Ozark hills of central Missouri. The county's typical resident is somewhat older than the typical American, and most homes there are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, summers are hot, and rain falls often enough to keep the countryside green.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops and retail. Building trades and manufacturing also employ a good number of people. Across the county, jobs fell slightly last year, though unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier. Fewer adults hold a degree than across the country, and few residents work from home.
Things to do. Lake of the Ozarks, a reservoir a short drive away, is one of the region's best-known places for boating and water recreation. Ozark Caverns, a tourist attraction also a short drive away, offers a look at the underground rock formations common in the Ozarks. For a longer outing, Ha Ha Tonka State Park, a protected area, lies a longer drive off.
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- 9,857households
- 41.3median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Miller County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Miller County had 7,806 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 4 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lakeside weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Miller County
- Quaker Window Co. - EldonMetal window and door manufacturing434
- Adient USAutomobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing365
- Eldon R-I SchoolsSchool district205FTE
- School of the OsageSchool district190FTE
- Opies TransportSpecialized freight trucking, long-distance140
- WalmartDiscount department stores101
- Iberia R-V SchoolsSchool district73FTE
- StoneBridge Lake OzarkSkilled nursing facilities71
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,379 people in all. 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 stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Miller County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Miller County.
Kaiser home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kaiser$294,763
- 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.
- Kaiser10
Zip codes with a Kaiser address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kaiser — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.