Mokane, Missouri.
Typical home $293,182 (+7.5% in a year). Jefferson City, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$661 (+75%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $20,474 +8%
- $272,708$293,182 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.
- Mokane$1,539
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Mokane, MO rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mokane, Callaway County, Missouri
Mokane is a city of 188 people in Callaway County. Half its households earn more than $90,143 a year and half less, against $74,176 across Callaway County. Unemployment in Callaway County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Callaway County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mokane is a very small city in Callaway County, with a young population compared with most places. Household incomes in town are higher than across the county, and homes carry a fairly high typical value. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers turn warm, so the seasons are quite distinct.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, government and manufacturing. The commute is a fairly long one, and many people head out of town for work. Across Callaway County, larger workplaces include William Woods University, Fulton 58 Schools and Walmart.
Things to do. Auxvasse Creek runs in or beside town, and the Osage River is a short drive away, so there is water close at hand. Research Cave, an archaeological site, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, the National Churchill Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 28 mintypical commute
What people in Callaway County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Callaway County had 14,759 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 19 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fulton weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Callaway County
- FultonGeneral warehousing and storage570
- William Woods UniversityUniversity or college359
- Avail Infrastructure SolutionsBus bar structures, switchgear-type, manufacturing255
- Fulton 58 SchoolsSchool district255FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters233
- Westminster CollegeUniversity or college220
- North Callaway Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district160FTE
- South Callaway Co. R-II SchoolsSchool district137FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,055 people in all across the county; Mokane has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mokane’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 Callaway County and the Jefferson City, MO metro.
Mokane home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mokane$293,182
- 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 Mokane address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mokane — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.