Milo, Missouri.
Typical home $281,350 (+3.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$256 (+21%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $8,433 +3%
- $272,917$281,350 since Sep 2025
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.
- Milo$1,477
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Milo, MO rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Milo, Vernon County, Missouri
Milo is a village of 57 people in Vernon County. Unemployment in Vernon County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 6.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Vernon County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Milo is a small village in Vernon County, Missouri, where neighbors tend to know one another. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January and some snow, while summers are warm and sometimes hot in July. Rain falls fairly often through the year, so the countryside stays green for much of the season.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops. Manufacturing and the building trades also employ people here. Jobs in the county grew over the past year, which has helped local households.
Things to do. Wilson Branch, a river, is a short drive away and makes an easy trip for a walk or a quiet afternoon outdoors. Fort Scott National Historic Site, a protected area, and Prairie State Park, also a protected area, are a longer drive away and suit a day trip.
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What people in Vernon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vernon County had 7,011 jobs in 2025, 6.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 6 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Nevada Wtp weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vernon County
- 3M Company662
- Nevada R-V SchoolsSchool district337FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters298
- Nevada Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital234FTE
- Cottey CollegeUniversity or college179
- Heartland Behavioral Hlth SvcsPsychiatric and substance abuse hospitals148
- Archer Daniels Midland Company79
- Medicalodges NevadaSkilled nursing facilities53
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,476 people in all across the county; Milo has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold 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 Milo’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 Vernon County.
Milo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Milo$281,350
- 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 Milo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Milo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.