Laurie, Missouri.
Typical home $287,435 (-1.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $256 (-14%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $3,536 -1%
- $290,971$287,435 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.
- Laurie$1,509
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Laurie, MO fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Laurie, Morgan County, Missouri
Laurie is a city of 939 people in Morgan County. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Morgan County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Morgan County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Laurie is a small city in Morgan County, Missouri, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Poverty is more common here than is typical, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with a little snow in most years and a fair amount of rain through the seasons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in shops and in manufacturing, and very few work from home. Across Morgan County, some of the largest workplaces are the Morgan CO. R-II Schools, Walmart and Gates, which makes control valves. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, though there were fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Buck Creek and Mill Creek run in or beside town, and Soap Creek is a short drive away. Farther afield, the Lake of the Ozarks, a large reservoir, and Ha Ha Tonka State Park are both a longer drive away. Bridal Cave, a tourist attraction, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 475households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Morgan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morgan County had 4,637 jobs in 2025, 3.1% 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, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morgan County
- Morgan Co. R-II SchoolsSchool district218FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters206
- GatesControl valves, fluid power, manufacturing196
- Martin MetalAddition, alteration and renovation for-sale builders, commercial and institutional building194
- Morgan Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district129FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 596 people in all across the county; Laurie 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Laurie’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 Morgan County.
Laurie home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Laurie$287,435
- 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.
- Laurie13
Zip codes with a Laurie address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Laurie — 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.