Leeton, Missouri.
Typical home $238,978 (+6.1% in a year). Warrensburg, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$674 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,634 +6%
- $225,344$238,978 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,320 +22%
- $196,658$238,978 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.
- Leeton$1,254
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Leeton, MO rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Leeton, Johnson County, Missouri
Leeton is a city of 532 people in Johnson County. Unemployment in Johnson County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Johnson County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leeton is a very small city in Johnson County, Missouri, with a quiet, close-knit feel that comes with its size. Homes here cost less than the typical home across much of the country, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than it is nationally. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, with July the warmest, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Johnson County, some of the largest workplaces are the University of Central Missouri, Enersys, which makes lead acid storage batteries, and Warrensburg R-VI Schools. The typical commute is a moderate drive, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Rock Island Trail State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Basin Fork, a river, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Knob Noster State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and so is Harry S. Truman Reservoir, a large reservoir for time on the water.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Johnson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Johnson County had 16,381 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 67°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Windsor weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Johnson County
- University of Central MissouriUniversity or college1,303
- EnersysLead acid storage batteries manufacturing600
- Warrensburg R-VI SchoolsSchool district534FTE
- Western Missouri Medical CenterGeneral hospital501FTE
- DC14 DC14 WarrensburgGeneral warehousing and storage460
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters410
- Knob Noster R-viii SchoolsSchool district255FTE
- RISE Community Services161
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,900 people in all across the county; Leeton has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leeton’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 Johnson County and the Warrensburg, MO metro.
Leeton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leeton$238,978
- 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.
- Leeton7
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Leeton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leeton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.