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Lakeside, Missouri.

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What it costs per month · Lakeside $1,393/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$768 (+123%) since Jan 2020.

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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Missouri $1,393 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Missouri$1,393
  • United States$1,922

Living in Lakeside, Miller County, Missouri

Lakeside is a city in Miller County. 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.

People The Census does not count Lakeside on its own.
Household income Too few homes in Lakeside for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 3.4% Miller County, August 2026; 3.6% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Lakeside for the Census survey to measure.

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lakeside is a city in Miller County, Missouri, set in the Ozark hills. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers are hot, peaking in July. Snow falls only lightly, while rain and melted snow come steadily through the year.

Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, or in manufacturing. Jobs in Miller County are fewer than the year before, though unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier.

Things to do. Lake of the Ozarks, a reservoir in or beside town, is the first place to look for water and shoreline. Lake of the Ozarks State Park, a protected area a short drive away, offers wooded land near the water. Bridal Cave, a tourist attraction a longer drive away, is a cave worth a trip.

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What people in Miller County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care23%
  • Shops (retail)15%
  • Building trades11%
  • Manufacturing9%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment8%
  • Government8%

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

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 44° and 25°; warmest in July, 89° and 70° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 44° 25° F M A M J J 89° 70° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 44° and 25°; warmest in July, 89° and 70° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 44° 25° F M A M J J 89° 70° A S O N D

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, under a mile away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Miller County

  1. Quaker Window Co. - EldonMetal window and door manufacturing434
  2. Adient USAutomobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing365
  3. Eldon R-I SchoolsSchool district205FTE
  4. School of the OsageSchool district190FTE
  5. Opies TransportSpecialized freight trucking, long-distance140
  6. WalmartDiscount department stores101
  7. Iberia R-V SchoolsSchool district73FTE
  8. 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 across the county; Lakeside has none 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

  1. Ice stormsVery high
  2. Winter weatherVery high
  3. TornadoesVery high
  4. Heat wavesRelatively high
  5. Inland floodingRelatively high
  6. Strong windRelatively high

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lakeside’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 Miller County.

Lakeside home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Market heat, inside the city limits

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

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Zip codes with a Lakeside address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lakeside — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.