Miller, Missouri.
Typical home $202,724 (+3.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$638 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,874 +4%
- $195,850$202,724 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,348 +40%
- $144,376$202,724 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.
- Miller$1,064
- 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 Miller, MO rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Miller, Lawrence County, Missouri
Miller is a city of 704 people in Lawrence County. Half its households earn more than $56,371 a year and half less, against $61,215 across Lawrence County. Unemployment in Lawrence County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lawrence 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Miller is a very small city in Lawrence County, Missouri, where neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes are somewhat below the county's, and a typical home costs a modest amount compared with many parts of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and some people work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also common. Across Lawrence County, some of the largest workplaces are Schreiber Foods, Walmart and Mercy Hospital Aurora. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs there has edged up.
Things to do. Several creeks, including Stahl Creek and Johnson Creek, are a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, an archaeological site, and to Fantastic Caverns, a tourist attraction. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 10%work from home
What people in Lawrence County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lawrence County had 8,974 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Vernon Univ Mo - Southwest Ctr weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lawrence County
- Schreiber FoodsCheese spreads manufacturing411
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters248
- Aurora R-viii SchoolsSchool district205FTE
- Mt. Vernon R-V SchoolsSchool district203FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters161
- Mercy Hospital AuroraCritical access hospital148FTE
- First Student115
- AFB InternationalPet food, dog and cat, manufacturing109
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,112 people in all across the county; Miller has one of its own. 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Miller’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 Lawrence County.
Miller home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Miller$202,724
- 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.
- Miller9
Zip codes with a Miller address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Miller — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.