Laddonia, Missouri.
Typical home $195,309 (+11.1% in a year). Mexico, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$569 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,512 +11%
- $175,797$195,309 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,026 +35%
- $144,283$195,309 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.
- Laddonia$1,025
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Laddonia, MO rose 11.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Laddonia, Audrain County, Missouri
Laddonia is a city of 502 people in Audrain County. Half its households earn more than $53,309 a year and half less, against $59,448 across Audrain County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Audrain County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Audrain County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Laddonia is a very small city in Audrain County, Missouri, where most people know one another by sight. Incomes run below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the hottest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and transport, warehouses and utilities close behind. Jobs are found mainly elsewhere in the county, and the typical commute is a fairly long one. Among the largest workplaces across Audrain County are Mexico 59 Schools, Spartan Light Metal Products and Walmart. Job numbers across the county slipped over the past year, and unemployment there has eased a little from a year ago.
Things to do. The best known nearby place is the Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site, a protected area a longer drive away. Mark Twain State Park is another protected area, also a longer drive away. Closer to town, Johns Branch is a stream a short drive away, a quiet spot for a walk along the water.
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- 239households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Audrain County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Audrain County had 7,910 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vandalia weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Audrain County
- Mexico 59 SchoolsSchool district368FTE
- Spartan Light Metal ProductsNonferrous die-casting foundries291
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters289
- Creative Food Ingredients-Missouri100
- Soteria FLexiblesFood storage bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing93
- Western Smokehouse PartnersSmoked meats made from purchased carcasses88
- HarbisonWalker International VandaliaAlumina fused refractories manufacturing80
- Van-far R-I SchoolsSchool district75FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,668 people in all across the county; Laddonia 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Laddonia’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 Audrain County and the Mexico, MO metro.
Laddonia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Laddonia$195,309
- 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.
- Laddonia5
Zip codes with a Laddonia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Laddonia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.