Leawood, Missouri.
Typical home $337,660 (+2.9% in a year). Joplin, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$956 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,498 +3%
- $328,162$337,660 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,824 +32%
- $255,837$337,660 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.
- Leawood$1,772
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Leawood, MO rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Leawood, Newton County, Missouri
Leawood is a village of 620 people in Newton County. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Newton County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 8.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Newton 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leawood is a very small village in Newton County, Missouri, with few residents. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, a much higher share than is usual across the country, and few residents live below the poverty line. A good many adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also common. Across Newton County, some of the largest workplaces are Freeman OAK Hill Health System, Joplin Schools and Mercy Hospital Joplin. Commutes are short, few people work from home, and unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, with more jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Wildcat Glades Conservation and Audubon Center, a museum devoted to the outdoors, is in or beside town, and Spring Creek runs through or alongside it too. A short drive away is George Washington Carver National Monument, a protected area honoring the scientist's early life. Winters are cold, summers hot, and rain and melted snow are fairly plentiful through the year.
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- 219households
- 50%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Newton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Newton County had 23,014 jobs in 2025, 8.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Joplin Regional Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newton County
- Freeman Oak Hill Health SystemGeneral hospital2,921FTE
- Joplin SchoolsSchool district1,182FTE
- Mercy Hospital JoplinGeneral hospital922FTE
- La-Z-BoyUpholstered furniture, household-type, custom, manufacturing850
- Neosho School DistrictSchool district666FTE
- Crowder CollegeTwo-year college618
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters421
- Heartland Pet Foods JoplinDog and cat food, manufacturing307
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,500 people in all across the county; Leawood has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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 stormsVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leawood’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 Newton County and the Joplin, MO metro.
Leawood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leawood$337,660
- 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.
- Leawood8
Zip codes with a Leawood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leawood — 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.