Lockwood, Missouri.
Typical home $177,280 (+6.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$592 (+175%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,174 +6%
- $167,106$177,280 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,379 +41%
- $125,901$177,280 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.
- Lockwood$930
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Lockwood, MO rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lockwood, Dade County, Missouri
Lockwood is a city of 846 people in Dade County. Half its households earn more than $44,375 a year and half less, against $53,750 across Dade County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Dade County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dade 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lockwood is a small city in Dade County, Missouri, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect to find in a place this size. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical trip to work is short.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and farming also employing a good number. Among the larger workplaces in Lockwood are Lockwood R-I Schools, Good Shepherd Community Care & Rehabilitation, and Lockwood Packing Company. Unemployment across Dade County is close to where it stood a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Greenfield Opera House is a theatre, and Honey Creek is a river good for time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to the Harry S Truman Birthplace State Historic Site, a protected area tied to the life of the president born there. Winters are cold with some snow, summers turn hot, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
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- 334households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Dade County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dade County had 1,695 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 13 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lockwood weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lockwood
- Prairie MountainScreen printing apparel and textile products118
- Good Shepherd Community Care & RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities98
- Lockwood Packing CompanyMeat extracts made from purchased carcasses81
- Lockwood R-I SchoolsSchool district57FTE
- US LBM HoldingsWood window and door manufacturing23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 320 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lockwood’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 Dade County.
Lockwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lockwood$177,280
- 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.
- Lockwood6
Zip codes with a Lockwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lockwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Lockwood
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65682 | Lockwood | 1,885 | — | $196,713 |
| 65752 | South Greenfield | 335 | — | $240,318 |