Leonard, Missouri.
Typical home $242,675 (+8.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$878 (+222%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,303 +9%
- $223,372$242,675 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $96,759 +66%
- $145,916$242,675 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.
- Leonard$1,274
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 7 years.
Typical home values in Leonard, MO rose 8.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Leonard, Knox County, Missouri
Leonard is a village of 57 people in Knox County. Unemployment in Knox County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Knox County work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leonard is a small village in Knox County, in the northeast of Missouri, where people tend to know one another. Winters are cold and bring some snow, and summers are warm. Rain and melted snow fall through much of the year, so the weather is often wet.
Work. Work here tends to be in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, or in manufacturing. Some residents travel beyond the village for their jobs, and others find work close to home.
Things to do. Bear Creek, a river a short drive away, is one place to spend time outdoors. Garnett Branch, another river a short drive away, is close by as well. North River, a river a longer drive away, makes a fuller day trip.
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- 3%below the poverty line
What people in Knox County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Knox County had 874 jobs in 2025, 2.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 16 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shelbina weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Knox County
- Knox Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district107FTE
- Cardwell Lumber Inc (Novelty)Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts50
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 50 people in all across the county; Leonard 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
- LightningVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leonard’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 Knox County.
Leonard home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leonard$242,675
- 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.
Zip codes with a Leonard address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leonard — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Leonard
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63451 | Leonard | 177 | — | $282,007 |
| 63460 | Novelty | 151 | — | $239,405 |