Milan, Missouri.
Typical home $108,545 (+0.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$193 (+51%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $766 +1%
- $107,779$108,545 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $26,837 -20%
- $135,381$108,545 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.
- Milan$570
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Milan, MO rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Milan, Sullivan County, Missouri
Milan is a city of 1,819 people in Sullivan County. Half its households earn more than $56,063 a year and half less, against $56,964 across Sullivan County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Sullivan County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Milan is a small city and the seat of Sullivan County, Missouri. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and homes are typically lived in by their owners, with a typical home value that is modest. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a good amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in shops. Some of the largest workplaces in Milan are Simmons Animal Nutritionmilan, Milan C Schools and Sullivan County Memorial Hospital. Unemployment in the county has risen a little over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Muddy Creek, a river, is a short drive away. Farther out, Thousand Hills State Park and Crowder State Park are protected areas for time outdoors. The Gen. John J. Pershing Boyhood Home State Historic Site is also a longer drive away.
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- 663households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sullivan County had 2,306 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Green City 5N weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Milan
- Simmons Animal Nutritionmilan153
- Milan C-2 SchoolsSchool district99FTE
- Sullivan County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital65FTE
- Varsity SpiritUniforms, band, cut and sewn from purchased fabric34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 308 people in all. School districts come 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Milan’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 Sullivan County.
Milan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Milan$108,545
- 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.
- Milan14
Zip codes with a Milan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Milan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.